There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.

We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.