“My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.”
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I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.
Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.