Endless Praise And Adoration, Limitless Abnegation And

The Koran Shows Every Sign Of Being Thrown Together By Human Beings, As Do All The Other Holy Books.

That Most Risky And Volatile Of All Things A Self-pitying Majority.

Your Least Favorite Virtue, Or Nominee For The Most Overrated One? Faith. Closely Followed—in View Of The Overall Shortage Of Time—by Patience.

The Only Position That Leaves Me With No Cognitive Dissonance Is Atheism. It Is Not A Creed. Death Is Certain, Replacing Both The Siren-song Of Paradise And The Dread Of Hell. Life On This Earth, With All Its Mystery And Beauty And Pain, Is Then To Be Lived Far More Intensely: We Stumble And Get Up, We Are Sad, Confident, Insecure, Feel Loneliness And Joy And Love. There Is Nothing More; But I Want Nothing More.

Time Spent Arguing With The Faithful Is, Oddly Enough, Almost Never Wasted.