Gods have many faces.
Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.
When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.
People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.