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To: La Lydia
The great trouble with religion — any religion — is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason — but one cannot have both.

Robert Heinlein


31 posted on 10/28/2009 9:00:39 PM PDT by Rafterman ("If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." -- Curtis LeMay)
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To: Rafterman

Hmm.. forgot that one.
Very good.


67 posted on 10/29/2009 3:38:47 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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