Lars Walker

“You’re thinking of the Old Ones of the old times,” said Haakon, “before they dwindled. They were dwindling in my day–those who’d not departed altogether. I see they’ve brought themselves lower still.” “From gods to elves, from elves to fairies, from fairies to pixies and goblins and brownies,” said Tom. “And in the end to an even lower thing–behavioral scientists.”
― Lars Walker, Death's Doors

“You mean Christians invented war, invented religious war, invented slavery and racial prejudice and treating women like objects and all that?” “Well, yeah–” “None of those things ever happened before Christianity existed?” Tom started to answer and stopped. War had been around forever. The ancient Egyptians, the Jews, and the Romans had fought wars over religion. Slavery went back to Mesopotamia and beyond. The Chinese had long called outsiders “foreign devils.” And in the Code of Hammurabi, the penalty for killing another man’s daughter had been for him to kill your daughter.”
― Lars Walker, Death's Doors