Is this part of your church thing?" he asks. Juanita has been using herexcess...

Is this part of your church thing?" he asks. Juanita has been using her
excess money to start her own branch of the Catholic church -- she considers
herself a missionary to the intelligent atheists of the world.
"Don't be condescending," she says. "That's exactly the attitude I'm fighting.
Religion is not for simpletons."
"Sorry. This is unfair, you know -- you can read every expression on my face,
and I'm looking at you through a fucking blizzard."
"It's definitely related to religion," she says. "But this is so complex, and
your background in that area is so deficient, I don't know where to begin."
"Hey, I went to church every week in high school. I sang in the choir."
"I know. That's exactly the problem. Ninety-nine percent of everything that
goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual
religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude
that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is
connected with being intelligent in people's minds."
"So none of that stuff I learned in church has anything to do with what you're
talking about?"
Juanita thinks for a while, eyeing him. Then she pulls a hypercard out of her
pocket. "Here. Take this.