14. How Can We Know About Supernatural Worlds?

> For there has never been a belief more beautiful, more just, more pure, more moral, more fruitful, more comforting, and in a certain sense more probable than theirs. With its doctrine of gradual atonement and purification, it alone gives meaning to all physical and mental inequalities, all social injustices, all the outrageous injustices of fate. But the goodness of a belief is no proof of its truth, even though six hundred million people worship this religion, even though it is closest to its origins shrouded in darkness, even though it is the only one that is not hateful and the least distasteful of all, it would have had to do what the others did not do: bring us irrefutable evidence. For what it has given us so far is only the first shadow of the beginning of a proof.