Gregory David Roberts. The Shadow Of The Mountain (№ 340917)

Worship is obedience. All religions, like all the kingdoms of the earth, require people to subjection and obedience. Of the tens of thousands of beliefs that existed from the beginning of time, survived only those who could force people into submission. But if a bridle of obedience is weakening based on it, religion goes into oblivion, as has happened with the once great cult of Zeus, Apollo and Venus, long prevailed over the whole slave to him the world.