Violence is so successful as a myth precisely because it does not seem to be mythic in the least. Violence simply appears to be the nature of things. It is what works. It is inevitable. ... The roots of this devotion to violence are deep, and we will be well rewarded if we trace them to their source. When we do, we will discover that the religion ofBabylon—one of the world's oldest, continuously surviving religions—is thriving as never before in every sector of contemporary American life, even in our synagogues and churches. It, and not Christianity, is the real religion of America.
p. 13
Besides an unmasking of the oppressors, there must also be ahealing of the servile will[1] in their victims.
p. 102
The victory of faith over the Powers lies, not in immunity to their wrath, but in emancipation from their delusions.
