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

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

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.

Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. That's much more like the priesthood as I know it.

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.