Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by the Aztecs and other so-called primitive peoples. How savage and barbaric such practices seem. But when a Christian or Jew comes across human sacrifice in the Bible (see Jephthah's immolation of his daughter in Judges 11:30-40), is he or she repulsed?

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

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

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

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