The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.

If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.

I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.