No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own .. . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing .. . is one that they can't or won't entertain. Robert A. Heinlein
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No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . .

. and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . .

. is one that they can't or won't entertain. They only want to think about how the whole thing is really their own fault—that God is nothing but a tired old excuse for a baby.

Source: Stranger In A Strange Land

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