Occupation: Author Birth: August 3, 1952
Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure..
Since science is fashionable today, it allows its fraternity to propose cloddish monstrosities as a solution to man's problems in many fields. Fashio….
Science "says" nothing. People say things and knowledge changes..
The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castiga….
Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption..
I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static..
North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the ….
The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or t….
Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying watching a bear….
People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them..
There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones who st….
Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money..
We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father..
Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible….
There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah..
All we know about Jesus is what someone else wrote down... so really one should say, "Here is what someone wrote down that they said Jesus said..." t….
Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired..
I just think the way (for instance) evangelicals talk about God or Jesus, as in "Jesus says" or "the Bible says" points up a lack of honesty..
Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God in Jesus or to continue to let the Bible define God. Our tradition say….
We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. W….
I do think evangelicals have been under attack..