Neal Stephenson Quote
Is this part of your church thing? he asks. Juanita has been using herexcess money to start her own branch of the Catholic church -- she considersherself a missionary to the intelligent atheists of the world.Don't be condescending, she says. That's exactly the attitude I'm fighting.Religion is not for simpletons.Sorry. This is unfair, you know -- you can read every expression on my face,and I'm looking at you through a fucking blizzard.It's definitely related to religion, she says. But this is so complex, andyour background in that area is so deficient, I don't know where to begin.Hey, I went to church every week in high school. I sang in the choir.I know. That's exactly the problem. Ninety-nine percent of everything thatgoes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actualreligion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they concludethat the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism isconnected with being intelligent in people's minds.So none of that stuff I learned in church has anything to do with what you'retalking about?Juanita thinks for a while, eyeing him. Then she pulls a hypercard out of herpocket. Here. Take this.
Is this part of your church thing? he asks. Juanita has been using herexcess money to start her own branch of the Catholic church -- she considersherself a missionary to the intelligent atheists of the world.Don't be condescending, she says. That's exactly the attitude I'm fighting.Religion is not for simpletons.Sorry. This is unfair, you know -- you can read every expression on my face,and I'm looking at you through a fucking blizzard.It's definitely related to religion, she says. But this is so complex, andyour background in that area is so deficient, I don't know where to begin.Hey, I went to church every week in high school. I sang in the choir.I know. That's exactly the problem. Ninety-nine percent of everything thatgoes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actualreligion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they concludethat the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism isconnected with being intelligent in people's minds.So none of that stuff I learned in church has anything to do with what you'retalking about?Juanita thinks for a while, eyeing him. Then she pulls a hypercard out of herpocket. Here. Take this.
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About Neal Stephenson
Stephenson's work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes nonfiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He has written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.
Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system, and also co-founded the Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He was Magic Leap's Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020.