All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into...

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our
brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche
for us. Now, religion used to be essentially viral -- a piece of information
that replicated inside the human mind, jumping from one person to the next.
That's the way it used to be, and unfortunately, that's the way it's headed
right now. But there have been several efforts to deliver us from the hands of
primitive, irrational religion. The first was made by someone named Enki about
four thousand years ago. The second was made by Hebrew scholars in the eighth
century B.C., driven out of their homeland by the invasion of Sargon II, but
eventually it just devolved into empty legalism. Another attempt was made by
Jesus -- that one was hijacked by viral influences within fifty days of his
death. The virus was suppressed by the Catholic Church, but we're in the middle
of a big epidemic that started in Kansas in 1900 and has been gathering momentum
ever since."
"Do you believe in God or not?" Hiro says. First things first.
"Definitely."
"Do you believe in Jesus?"
"Yes. But not in the physical, bodily resurrection of Jesus."
"How can you be a Christian without believing in that?"
"I would say," Juanita says, "how can you be a Christian with it? Anyone who
takes the trouble to study the gospels can see that the bodily resurrection is a
myth that was tacked onto the real story several years after the real histories
were written. It's so National Enquirer-esque, don't you think?