In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had they died as quickly as the rest of the people, but they had died with terror in their hearts, with a mortal dread flowing in their very veins. Richard Matheson
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The result should have been obvious. The first two thousand years of history should have taught people that they could not trust to primitive worship for answers. After all, the founders of the earliest religions were themselves only humans. They had lived and died just as any other human being could. No halfway measures or compromises could be taken with them, no matter how deeply one may hide behind words of reverence.

Source: I Am Legend And Other Stories

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