"In the end, we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too… — Tom Robbins

"And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?"

I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas story. And every time that child's purity is corrupted by society, that's the meaning of the Crucifixion story. Your man Jesus stands for that child, that pure spirit, and as its surrogate, he's being born and put to death again and again, over and over, every time we inhale and exhale, not just at the vernal equinox and on the twenty-fifth of December.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.