the difference between religion and reality

The difference between religion and reality is the same difference between looking at the world like an economist or a business man and looking at it like an ecologist or a biologist.

Or it’s like the picture where, depending on how you interpret it, you see either a young woman or an old lady. And while the economist and the business man see the world as a prostitute, to be used as they see fit, the ecologist and the biologist see the world as their aged mother, whom they love.

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