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4:36

(In »Living religion versus deadly alienation«)

The law’s evident and indisputable ability to engender and maintain complex civilizations bestows upon it a holy aura. Since the law is such an excellent instrument for directing culture, and since nature itself also seems to be held together with mathematics’ somewhat frightening exactitude, nature too must obey another, even more far-reaching and eternally valid law. This law of nature in turn requires an author; quite simply there must be a god behind the law, the god of the law. In other words, nature obeys the law of God. This law is so enchantingly powerful that it is soon worshipped as a god in itself. The Abrahamic religions launch the idea that everything else is dependent on and must be subordinate to the law, that this precedes and dictates everything else. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”