Limited Imagination

“You heard him say it? 'Pain's the only evil I know about.' You heard that?"

The monk nodded solemnly.

"And that society is the only thing that determines whether an act is wrong or not? That too?"

"Yes."

"Dearest God, how did those two heresies get back into the world after all this time? Hell has limited imaginations down there. 'The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.”

~Walter Miller Jr. (from A Canticle for Leibowitz)