We Live Only A Few Conscious Decades,

Religion Gets Its Morality From Us. We Don't Get Our Morality From Religion.

The Fragility Of Love Is What Is Most At Stake Here—humanity's Most Crucial Three-word Avowal Is Often Uttered Only To Find Itself Suddenly Embarrassing Or Orphaned Or Isolated Or Ill-timed—but Strangely Enough It Can Work Better As A Literal Or Reassuring Statement Than A Transcendent Or Numinous Or Ecstatic One.

Thanks To The Telescope And The Microscope, Religion No Longer Offers An Explanation For Anything Important.

You Can Be A Polish American, Or An Arab American, Or A Greek American But You Can't Be English American. Why Not?

The Human Wish To Credit Good Things As Miraculous And To Charge Bad Things To Another Account Is Apparently Universal.