Overheard Starbuck

"Why can't they see the god they promote in politics and on tv is psychotic, a dangerous imaginary friend? And his bible little more then hate literature with homilies mixed in?"
---"What makes you think the mechanisms for crowd control need be 'elegant'--in that classical biological design sense-- or even rational? ...When someone next starts talking about god ask them which one they mean: the god of war or the god of love."