Nature's full strength is more than we can take... It's a potent hallucinogen, a sophorific, for the untrained soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much god and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
Margaret Atwood, on page 327 of The Year of the Flood, an excellent companion novel to her 2003 Oryx and Crake novel.
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