How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.

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

Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold our convictions dogmatically. We believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion. And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true - that religion has caused innumerate people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to behave in ways that would make a brothel-keeper or an ethnic cleanser raise an eyebrow.