“When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest, ' and so forth, I switch off quite early.”
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I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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.
