I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

I was raised pretty much a fundamentalist, but the one thing that fundamentalism gave to me was the love for that book and a commitment to read and study it. The difficulty is that I've read it all, I didn't skip around, I read it all, and when you read it all, you can't take it literally because you don't want to blame God for a lot of stuff that occurs in that book. There are some pretty violent scenes.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.

...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal with the issues of mortality from the first time we see a dead bird as a little child.