When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8].

I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.

Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.