Swallow Your Pride And Admit

Institutions Are Not Pretty. Show Me A Pretty Government. Healing Is Wonderful, But The American Medical Association? Learning Is Wonderful, But Universities? The Same Is True For Religion... Religion Is Institutionalized Spirituality.

Only While They Are Conforming Their Actions To The Model Of Some Archetypal Hero Do The Arunta Feel That They Are Truly Alive, For In Those Roles They Are Immortal. The Occasions On Which They Slip From Such Molds Are Quite Meaningless, For Time Immediately Devours Those Occasions And Reduces Them To Nothingness.

I Would Not Say That Ethical Behavior Is Not Possible For The Atheist Or Agnostic. It Is. A Couple Of Pretty Good Examples Are Bertrand Russell And Jean-paul Sartre. However, I Will Have To Say That If We Take The Human Lot As A Whole, These Two Men Must Be Seen As Exceptions.

All -isms End Up In Schisms.

The Faith I Was Born Into Formed Me.