A single wooden chess pawn stands among fallen dominoes on a brown tabletop against an olive background.

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Stephen King

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

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The speaker calls religious mania beautiful for its power to explain everything: once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause, nothing is left to chance. Logic can then be cheerfully discarded. The appeal is total explanation, bought at the price of reasoning.

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