The violence in the Bible is appalling.

The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the State, should it rule now, should it claim to govern people in the here and now, or should it wait until the Messiah, the 12th Imam, comes back and would it only be then appropriate for religious rule to bring about a world of universal justice and vindication.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.