There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.
Frank SchaefferAll we know about Jesus is what someone else wrote down... so really one should say, "Here is what someone wrote down that they said Jesus said..." this isn't uncertainty on purpose, just plain speaking.
Frank SchaefferThe Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward โ there-is-no-global-warming โ rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.
Frank Schaeffer