Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?

Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would think-though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one-that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.

There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.

To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.