聽神談【人類走向沒落的最大原因之一】
你們唯一可以合理化你們對待其他國家、其他文化與其他人民的方法，是想像───不，是堅持───它們和你們是分離(而非一體)的。為了使這種分離更加生動，並合理化你自己的行事方式，你也堅持這些人是與神分離的。唯有你們，是與神連結的，唯有你們，是神的子民，唯有你們，是跟隨著神的拯救計畫的人。
你們不在意「你所理解的神的拯救計畫是殺掉一半人類」這樣的事實。他們死亡的理由，是因為他們該死（「殺死異教徒！」），或因為他們沒有跟隨唯一真神的道路，而無意中帶來他們自己的死亡。那個神藉由一些特殊盟約、啟示或理解，只與你們連結，而與他們分離。
這是你們人類的神學家，如何圍繞著你們的昨日之神，創造出你們的「文化故事」的過程───這就是為何昨日之神已變成人類沒落(downfalls)最大的原因之一。
尼爾：喔，我的天啊，不能那樣說。撒旦才是讓人類沒落覆滅的原因。不能說神是人類沒落的原因。這是叛教！
說到「昨日之神」，我意指：你們昨日「對神的認知」、昨日「關於神的觀念」。這些一直是人類走向沒落的原因。他們沒有引領人類到人類想到達的地方；他們沒帶來和平、和諧，及快樂；他們沒產生啟蒙的黃金時代 (the Golden Age of Enlightenment)。它們只為全世界帶來了眼淚、憤怒、暴力、血腥，和數不清的痛苦與恐怖的破壞。
神本身並沒有做這些，但是，「你們關於神的觀念」卻做了；神自己永遠不會做這種事，但是人類會，並且做了。
摘自《重新定義神》第5章
The only way you can justify treating other countries, other cultures, other people, the way that you do is to imagine—no, to insist—that they are separate from you. To make this separation more vivid, and to give yourselves justification for acting the way you do, you also insist that these others are separate from God. Only YOU are united with God, only YOU are God's people, only YOU are following God's plan for salvation. The fact that your understanding of God's Plan for Salvation is killing half the human race is of no concern to you. The reason they are dying is either because they deserve to die ("Kill the infidels!") or be- cause they have unwittingly brought about their own demise by not following the path to the One and True God—who is separate from them and connected only to YOU by means of some special covenant or revelation or understanding.
This is how your human theologies have created your Cultural Story around Yesterday's God—and it is why Yesterday's God has become one of humanity's greatest downfalls.
Neale: Oh, my God, don't say that. It is Satan who is the downfall of Man. Don't say that God is Man's downfall. That is apostasy!
By Yesterday's God I mean Yesterday's ideas about God, Yesterday's conceptualizations about God. These are what have been humanity's downfall. They have not led humanity to the place where it says it wishes to go. They have not brought peace, harmony, and happiness. They have not produced the Golden Age of Enlightenment. They have brought tears and anger and violence and bloodshed and untold anguish and terrible destruction across the globe and around the world.
God herself has not done this, but your ideas about God have. God himself would never do such a thing, but human beings would, and have.
