I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.
From Christopher Hitchens
I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.
If you can talk, you can write.
The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.
Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.
I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.
My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.
If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
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