The Bible Is Literature, Not Dogma.

Almost Every Wise Saying Has An Opposite One, No Less Wise, To Balance It.

It Would Repel Me Less To Be A Hangman Than A Soldier, Because The One Is Obliged To Put To Death Only Criminals Sentenced By The Law, But The Other Kills Honest Men Who Like Himself Bathe In Innocent Blood At The Bidding Of Some Superior.

My Atheism, Like That Of Spinoza, Is True Piety Towards The Universe And Denies Only Gods Fashioned By Men In Their Own Image, To Be Servants Of Their Human Interests.

I Have No Axe To Grind; Only My Thoughts To Burnish.

We Crave Support In Vanity, As We Do In Religion, And Never Forgive Contradictions In That Sphere.