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“If God has at last died in our culture, he has not been buried. For the casually religious, he lingers like a fond old relative who has been so expertly embalmed that we may prop him up in the far corner of the living room and pretend the old fellow is still with us. We have even taken pains to bend his fallen mouth into a benign and permissive smile . . . and that is a comfort. It makes him so much easier to live with. No more of the old hellfire and brimstone; no more of the terrible mystery and paradox that require the crucifixion of the intellect; no more dark nights of the soul. Is it any wonder that for many people, a dead and stuffed God seems preferable not only to no God at all, but to any God at all?”
—Theodore Roszak, in Where the Wasteland, quoted by columnist Charles W. Moore, Oct. 29, 2002 in ChristianWeek | 
