Originally Posted by mordwyr

Much is revealed in The Mystical City of God, though the revelations therein are not required belief. They are higher mysteries, for those with eyes to see.

Originally Posted by Frownland

Does this count as one of those "good" explanation?

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.