Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.

Cheap booze is a false economy.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

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.

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.