“The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.”
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Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
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.
Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.