Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?

Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.

Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.