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There Are Few Pages Of History Which Do Not Demonstrate That Public Prayer And Ritual Never Inoculated People Against Mass-madness And Cruelty. What Is Needed Is Emphasis On Morality And Manners.

In A Rational Society We Would Want Our Presidents To Be Teachers. In Our Actual Society We Insist They Be Cheerleaders.

Everybody Is Somewhere.

The Fundamentalist Believer Is Mostly A Weird Intellectual Who Often Lacks Real Faith Altogether. As A Self-appointed Attorney For God, Who Is In No Need Of Attorneys, He Very Easily Turns Out To Be More Godless Than The Agnostic And The Unbeliever. At All Events, He Seems Deaf To Poetry.

God Is By Definition The Holder Of All Possible Knowledge, It Would Be Impossible For Him To Have Faith In Anything. Faith, Then, Is Built Upon Ignorance And Hope.