# Quote — Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

> “The old religion.”
>
> “Druids?” asked Shadow. He was uncertain what other old religions there were, in England.
>
> “Could be. Definitely could be. But I think it predates the druids. Doesn’t have much of a name. It’s just what people in these parts practice, beneath whatever else they believe. Druids, Norse, Catholics, Protestants, doesn’t matter. That’s what people pay lip service to. The old religion is what gets the crops up and keeps your cock hard and makes sure that nobody builds a bloody great motorway through an area of outstanding natural beauty. The Gateway stands, and the hill stands, and the place stands. It’s well, well over two thousand years old. You don’t go mucking about with anything that powerful.

- Author: [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md)
- Book: [Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/trigger-warning-short-fictions-and-disturbances.md)
- Page: 321
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/trigger-warning-short-fictions-and-disturbances/the-old-religion

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> “There are those who think it’s devil worship,” said Oliver. “And I think they are wrong. But then, one man’s god is another’s devil. Eh?”

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> “You’re very good. Are you a professional artist?”
>
> “I dabble,” she said.
>
> Shadow had spent enough time talking to the English to know that this meant either that she dabbled, or that her work was regularly hung in the National Gallery or the Tate Modern.

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> “I suppose you must be looking forward to them sorting all this out,” he said. “Er. The Palestinian situation. The politics.”
>
> She shrugged. “It doesn’t matter to Jerusalem,” she said. “The people come. The people believe. Then they kill each other, to prove that God loves them.”
>
> “Well,” he said. “How would you fix it?”
>
> She smiled her whitest smile. “Sometimes,” she said, “I think it would be best if it was bombed. If it was bombed back to a radioactive desert. Then who would want it? But then I think, they would come here and collect the radioactive dust that might contain atoms of the Dome of the Rock, or of the Temple, or a wall that Christ leaned against on his way to the Cross. People would fight over who owns a poisonous desert, if that desert was Jerusalem.

p. 160 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/trigger-warning-short-fictions-and-disturbances/i-suppose-you.md)