The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to an outsider. The eucharist is just sublimated cannibalism, to the unawakened. When the Pope kisses the feet of the laity, he looks like an old toe-queen to some people. The rites of Pan look like a suburban orgy.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

A true initiation never ends.

Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.

We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.