"I'd read a great deal in the Old Testament before it occurred to me that it as among other things a handbook for revolutionaries. that what it extolls above all else is freedom. There is not historian and no archaelogist who has any conception of what stonework means. The Semitic god was a god of the common man and that is why he'll have no hewn stones to his altar. He'll have no hewing of stone because he'll have no slavery."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Stonemason (pg. 65)