"You believe in God?" demanded Billy Karma.
"I believe in thirty-seven separate and distinct gods", answered Argyle proudly. "That puts me thirty-six ahead of you."
"It makes you a pagan."
"It makes you a man of limited vision," said Argyle.
"Still, it don't matter what you believe," continued Karma. "Jesus died for your sins anyway."
"I never could figure out why you worship someone who couldn't even save himself," said Argyle. "And you walk around wearing a representation of the cross that killed him. That's awfully close to psychic necrophilia."
Mike Resnick(1942-): The Outpost(2001), sivu 70.