Never before was there such a sudden disrobement of an ecclesiastical dignitary draped in all his trappings. - H. Rider Haggard

Is it not so with many of the gods men set up? They are not and never were, but their priests are and shake the spear of power and pierce the hearts of men with terrors. What, then, does it matter about the gods whom no man sees, when the priest is there shaking the spear of power and piercing the hearts of their worshippers? The god is the priest or the priest is the god—have it which way you like

It is what is in a man that matters . . . not what he looks like outside, as women often used to say to me when I was young

Superstition is still king of most of the world, though often it calls itself Religion.