CUTHBERT: Ashton, I’m an adult. I should be treated like an adult. And this is religious intolerance.

ASHTON: Come on!

CUTHBERT: I didn’t attack you when I found you performing your ritual to Atlach-Nacha.

ASHTON: (Pause) You know I don’t like talking about religion.

Alan Ryker, When Cthulhu Met Atlach-Nacha [Amazon]

Hermetic quote Ryker When Cthulhu Met Atlach-Nacha adult religious intollerance attack performing ritual don't like talking about religion

Consider also:

  1. “Sometimes I think you’re too nice,” she said. The fact that she couldn’t sit down without wincing didn’t mean anything.
  2. “Every week we sat at the same table, ate the same thing, and drank the same coffee. It was the one small consistency in our life together and we cherished it more than we admitted, even to ourselves. Arguing was also a part of the tradition.”
  3. “It was, first, the equalization of fortunes, by means of an income tax and succession duties, both heavily progressive, as also by a direct confiscation of the land in order to sub-divide it, and by heavy war taxes levied upon the rich only.”
  4. The ceremony took place in the tabernacle, upon a wooden stage with a background painted to look like drapery. Strang sat upon a throne made of wood, covered in cloth and stuffed with moss. He held a wooden scepter and wore a bright red robe trimmed with white, perhaps looking a bit like Santa Claus. An entourage of men with various church titles surrounded him, like dukes, earls, and barons at a court.
  5. “I can no longer believe the nice speculative contradictions of our divine theologians,” he wrote.