““Perhaps our reservoir of spiritual faith has run out.”
“Perhaps it should have run out a long time ago,” I said sternly. “Superstition has taken a terrible toll on our species. Wars… pogroms… resistance to logic and science and medicine… not to mention gathering power in the hands of people like those who run the Pax.””

—  Dan Simmons , book The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 10 (p. 166)

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