I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to...
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed but truth moves to the heart as...
Memory is a complicated thing a relative to truth but not its twin.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society what we owe...
Terms like that 'Humane Society ' are devised with people like me in mind...
I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the...
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run....
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what...
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for....
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of...
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of...
Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink and...
I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of...
The advent of a new religion making serious and impressive claims to embody...
I've been a little bit obsessed with religion without being a religious...
I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal...
They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the...