Man has lived his life by God's rules because God asked only the things man had already embraced, but then man twisted Gods words to serve his own purpose – to take a wife and beat her to keep her obedient, to slaughter his enemy and claim God had allowed his death or to steal the land and cattle of those he called heretics.

Carl had always counted the Bible as God's word but now he felt the nagging voice of doubt in his mind – if the word of God had been written by man then couldn't it have been corrupted by man as well?
The more he thought about it the more he found contradictions and hypocritical statements until there was no doubt left in his mind.

"I thought you were a man of God." Van Helsing said as Carl shed the monk's habit that was his skin in the Vatican and crawled onto the tiny bed, wrapping his arms around the other man and kissing him.
"I am" Carl said "but I am not a man of man."