"Of course there were doubts about it, there always had been; when you found out about all the other holy books there had ever been throughout the histories of other peoples throughout the galaxy, you realised how common they were, and how fallible, how restricted they were by the usual tribal prejudices and traditions of the people who β it took real blind faith not to accept β had made them up."
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Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata (2013) , Chapter 7, p. 111
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