The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen.

There's one other interesting thing about Western democracy. It didn't arrive at the end point that Karl Marx thought it would that wealth would become more and more concentrated in the hands of the few, that eventually the few would be killed by the many who were deprived, and that a different kind of government would then develop. What happened in Western democracy is that we began to understand that a democratic system can't work if half of the people are starving and the other half are dieting.

You don't take your newborn baby, put that baby on your lap, and say, "Now listen, kid, you were born in sin, you're not worth anything, and you've got to pray for mercy." That's not going to raise a healthy adult. And that's what we do Sunday after Sunday after Sunday.

Papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy are the two ecclesiastical versions of this human idolatry. Both papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy require widespread and unchallenged ignorance to sustain their claims to power. Both are doomed as viable alternatives for the long- range future of anyone.

Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

In fact, in 1724 the Western world learned that women were co-creators of life that's when it was discovered that women had an egg cell.