“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.”
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I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
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.
My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.