An asymptote means that you never quite get there. That's the way science proceeds, with far more humility and far more scholarship than religion, which accepts myths without evidence and spins them into "deeper truths" (choose your own expression). As you know, my beef with religion is that this stuff is deliberately and institutionally passed on to children, who are told what to think instead of how to think and how to accept nothing without evidence. Unless you're a rarity, which you may be, you are a Catholic because your parents were, your school was and you were severely discouraged, under pain of all sorts, from challenging your imposed "faith" (and I'm the first to admit that Catholicism is far from being the most malign offender, which, of course, is still no justification whatsoever). I find it odd that otherwise rational people can accept that so meekly.

Amos, if you can identify any babies I might be throwing down the plug hole, I'd be glad if you would do so. One thing I can tell you about my own imagination is that I fiercely claim all religious art and music as mine. I don't need to sign any sacred document or go through a strange ceremony to take possession of the very finest products of the talent, imagination and sheer blood, sweat and tears of my fellow human beings. I even claim cathedrals. I've been in two this week and am going into a basilica this morning. More of that later.