Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

We need a new religion.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.