When I hit the age of reason at twelve, I realized it was all made up. The only people I had to 'come out' to were my parents, because I wanted them to stop forcing me to go to church. They obliged and we never talked about it again.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
