A child is owed the greatest respect if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind don't ignore your son's tender years.
Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand I pray on the other hand I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
I almost got a psychology degree I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion epistomology and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
Well religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.
I have increasingly over the years felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
It is already clear after twenty years of socialism in Russia that if you do not provide your society with a new religion it will gradually revert to the old one.
I am utterly struck how 300 years after his execution Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.