I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor.

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.