Sublime

ever claim to have been divinely inspired.

It’s as if each

human belief systems are good at absorbing contradictions into their thinking.

I am not sure I do accept God, or how God has been traditionally defined or understood.

sanest guide through the turbulence and hatred of human politics is a humorous and self-deprecating pessimism.

The Church found a way of living with the unexplained delay, because

there is a clear tendency in subsequent generations of believers to overdefine and concretise the original revelation.

Macaulay believed that the disjunctions that afflicted us were intrinsic to the human condition and there was no permanent escape from them.

In the long and menacing in-between-time while we waited for the promised end, humans had been given the opportunity to be purged of the sin they were guilty of by virtue of having been born.