Christian thinkers have long been wary of knowledge. Thomas Aquinas is reported to have said, “I am a man of one book [the Bible],” seeming to imply that all others might be suspect. The great reformer Martin Luther assailed reason in a fervor: Reason is the Devil's greatest whore; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious whore; she is a prostitute, the Devil's appointed whore; whore eaten by scab and leprosy who ought to be trodden under foot and destroyed, she and her wisdom…. Throw dung in her face to make her ugly. She is and she ought to be drowned in baptism…. She would deserve, the wretch, to be banished to the filthiest place in the house, to the closets.

— Alpha God by Hector A. Garcia