Monotheistic dualism… presents an almost whimsical picture of a God who is a supreme egoist creating the universe for the express purpose of being worshipped… The question of whether God created the authoritarian form… or whether the form projected a God to justify itself, is not trivial.1
- Kramer, Joel and Diana Alstad. The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power. Frog Books, 1993. 193. [↩]