I Have No Plans, And No Plans

The Mugger Who Is Arrested Is Back On The Street Before The Police Officer, But The Person Mugged May Not Be Back On The Street For A Long Time, If Ever.

The Republicans Believe That The Wagon Train Will Not Make It To The Frontier Unless Some Of The Old, Some Of The Young, Some Of The Weak Are Left Behind.

Way Down Deep The American People Are Afraid Of An Entangling Relationship Between Formal Religions - Or Whole Bodies Of Religious Belief - And Government. Apart From Constitutional Law And Religious Doctrine, There Is A Sense That Tells Us It's Wrong To Presume To Speak For God Or To Claim God's Sanction Of Our Particular Legislation And His Rejection Of All Other Positions. Most Of Us Are Offended When We See Religion Being Trivialized By Its Appearance In Political Throw-away Pamphlets.

In The End, I'm Convinced We Will All Benefit If Suspicion Is Replaced By Discussion, Innuendo By Dialogue; If The Emphasis In Our Debate Turns From A Search For Talismanic Criteria And Neat But Simplistic Answers To An Honest - More Intelligent - Attempt At Describing The Role Religion Has In Our Public Affairs, And The Limits Placed On That Role.

I Somehow Got This Reputation Of Diddling And Dithering. I Don't Remember Dithering At All.