“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.” - Charles Evans Hughes (more…)

“Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.” -Hermann Goering (more…)

“Joy is the serious business of heaven.” -C.S. “Not Carl” Lewis

“There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.” -Jesus “Not Quintana” Christ (more…)

“Love your neighbor as yourself.” -Jesus “Not Quintana” Christ (more…)

“Irrationality is the square root of all evil.” -Douglas Hofstadter. (more…)

“I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumours,
But I think that God’s got a sick sense of humor,
And when I die, I expect to find him laughing.”

-Depeche Mode, “Blasphemous Rumours”

Theologians call it the problem of evil, or the mystery of iniquity… if God’s all-knowing and all-powerful and good, why do things like ebola virus, the holocaust, and televangelists exist? (more…)

We all like the sound of equality, and for the most part we honor the notion of legal equality as the bedrock of a sane and fair world. Nevertheless, a billion and one inequalities always impinge on our efforts at equality, and it’s hard to know by what just standard we might ever affirm one entity’s legal inequality-one might say, legal superiority-over another. (more…)