For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection
racket—by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation
and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then
riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be
sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.
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