They have not forgotten the Mysteries, she said, they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for them, who will not demand that they struggle for enlightenment, but who will accept them just as they are, with all their sins, and take away their sins with repentance. It is not so, it will never be so, but perhaps it is the only way the unenlightened can bear to think of their Gods. Lancelet smiled bitterly. Perhaps a religion which demands that every man must work through lifetime after lifetime for his own salvation is too much for mankind. They want not to wait for Gods justice, but to see it now. And that is the lure which this new breed of priests has promised them.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley was a 20th-century American author. Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. She was noted for the female perspective in her writing, something before little-seen in Sword and Sorcery fantasy. Read more on Wikipedia →