"it is foolish to attribute all the evils of religion to Mani, but he does seem to have done a remarkably good job if infecting a range of belief systems with the most damaging and depressing ideas about impurity, the corruption of material exsistance, and the sinfulness of sexual pleasure...His thinking was a kind of Pandora's box of malingnity, the particles from which went fluttering off in all directions on their misshapen wings" (pg. 51)