We Are All Prisoners Of Our Thoughts.

Unreason Is Now Ascendant In The United States - In Our Schools, In Our Courts, And In Each Branch Of The Federal Government. Only 28 Percent Of Americans Believe In Evolution; 68 Percent Believe In Satan. Ignorance In This Degree, Concentrated In Both The Head And Belly Of A Lumbering Superpower, Is Now A Problem For The Entire World.

It Is Safe To Say That Almost Every Person Living In New Orleans At The Moment Hurricane Katrina Struck Shared Your Belief In An Omnipotent, Omniscient, And Compassionate God. But What Was God Doing While Katrina Laid Waste To Their City? Surely He Heard The Prayers Of Those Elderly Men And Women Who Fled The Rising Waters For The Safety Of Their Attics, Only To Be Slowly Drowned There.

The Deity Who Stalked The Deserts Of The Middle East Millennia Ago-and Who Seems To Have Abandoned Them To Bloodshed In His Name Ever Since-is No One To Consult On Questions Of Ethics.

When Considering The Truth Of A Proposition, One Is Either Engaged In An Honest Appraisal Of The Evidence And Logical Arguments, Or One Isn't. Religion Is One Area Of Our Lives Where People Imagine That Some Other Standard Of Intellectual Integrity Applies.

Ignorance In This Degree, Concentrated In Both The Head And Belly Of A Lumbering Superpower, Is Now A Problem For The Entire World.