Cruiser said, "I am just trying to comprehend the often incomprehensible: Ergo, how did we let ourselves get into this quagmire?"

I think we did it by trying to comprehend the incomprehensible, and rather than being content not to know, we invented answsers. Even now, when we comprehend more than we did, many people want to stick with those inventions, or belief systems.

Some of the best proof of this position is the fact that the "gods" we invent all have human attributes -- jealousy, wrath, tenderness, revenge, love, hate, etc...Who said that a triangular race would invent a three-sided god?