Detective by Arthur Hailey

Author:Arthur Hailey [Arthur Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: London : Doubleday, 1997.
Published: 2014-02-15T16:00:00+00:00

He went to the monastery and, to his surprise, found himself at peace. The hardships he simply shrugged off. The silence, which he had expected to be a burden, wasn't, and later, when he returned to the outside world, he found it full of senseless chatter. People, Malcolm realized, were compulsive about filling a silence with their voices. But silence, accompanied by quickly learned hand signals, he discovered in the Poconos, was in many situations more desirable. Malcolm disobeyed only one condition of his banishment. He did not pray. While the monks around him presumably did so in their silence, he used the time to think, imagine, dip into accumulated knowledge, and assess his past and future.

At the end of a month of introspection he reached three conclusions. He no longer believed in any god, the divinity of Jesus, or the mission of the Catholic Church. While the reasons were multiple, most important was that all religions had a background of, at maximum, a mere five thousand years. Compared with the vast unknown aeons of geological time through which the universe had existed Earth being a relative pinhead the duration of religion's presence equaled, perhaps, a single sand grain from the whole Sahara Desert.

It was also increasingly conclusive that mankind, Homo sapiens, evolved from hominids apelike creatures millions of years ago. The scientific evidence had become increasingly irrefutable, evidence that most religions chose to ignore because accepting it would put them out of business.

Therefore all the many gods and religions were simply recent, made-up fantasies.

Then why did so many people choose to believe, Ainslie often asked himself. One answer: It was mainly their subconscious urge to escape oblivion the dust-to-dust concept, which, ironically, Ecclesiastes spelled out so well.

That which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts . . .a man hath no preeminence above a beast; for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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