"The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly."
- Soren Kiekegaard;
(source: Jason Martin)
[note: I am not an expert in Kiekegaard's material, I think though he did have some skewed ideas, but forget exactly what they were, so I am not endorsing him specifically, but this point is accurate.]