# Quote — Philip José Farmer, The Dark Design

> The religions of Jesus, Paul, and Buddha had started to degenerate before their founders were cold in their graves. Just as St. Francis’ order had begun corrupting before its founder’s body was rotten.

- Author: [Philip José Farmer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer.md)
- Book: [The Dark Design](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design.md)
- Page: 296
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Jos%C3%A9_Farmer#The_Dark_Design_(1977)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design/the-religions-of-jesus

## More from this book

> I had the honor to serve at the siege of Arras. Where I received a thrust through the throat, the second of the serious wounds that convinced me, along with all else I had seen of wars miseries and horrors, that Mars was the stupidest of the gods.

p. 371 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design/i-had-the.md)

> Imagination was the great cozener of the past.

p. 430 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design/imagination-was-the.md)

> As for the Bible, it was a book, and all books told the truth in the sense that their authors believed they were writing a kind of truth.

p. 265 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design/as-for-the.md)