Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

Here’s someone who says there’s no such thing, it’s all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you’re bound to be okay, because you’re in the safely moral majority.

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

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

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you're really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.