Perspectives

Last night I chanced on some quotations of note:

We must believe in free will; we have no other choice.
--Isaac Bashevis Singer

No man of any humor every founded a religion.
--Robert Ingersoll

From the moment I looked into the horror on September 11th, into the fireball, into that explosion of horror, I knew it. I knew it before anything was said about those who did it or why. I recognized an old companion. I recognized religion.
--Monsignor Lorenzo Albagete

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
--Oscar Wilde

Then this morning, the NYTimes online published a poll on religious tolerance in the US, and I was surprised to see there is as much as reported—especially among Catholics—the church I was brought up in but left years ago: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/06/24/us/20080624_RELIGION_GRAPHIC.html

I end with a quote from the 1980s:

You should never go out just to get laid; always go out to give laid.