Religion is a Mental Illness

"Christianity is a very pretentious religion. It is built on pretend biographies, written by pretended authors, who describe a pretend son of a pretended God, who they pretend could perform miracles. But the pretentiousness doesn't stop there, for they also pretend to describe a pretended resurrection in a bid to sell to pretentious fools, a pretend salvation that will take the saved to a pretend heaven, whilst avoiding a pretend hell and all of this pretence, they pretend, is historical, logical and scientific."

-- Michael Sherlock

"The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relationships in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power." (Prof. Judith Butler, “Further Reflections on the Conversations of Our Time”, 1997)