The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for read more

Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication ("theories"), ideas not derived from any systematic process ("visions"), ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process ("illusions"), ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process ("myths"), ideas which have already passed authentication processes ("facts"), as well as ideas known to have failed- or certain to fail- such processes ("falsehoods" - both mistakes and lies).

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would read more

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, read more

The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and read more

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.