In The Fullness Of Time,

Only The Most Unapologetic Biblical Fundamentalists, For Instance, Take Every Biblical Injunction Literally. If We All Took All Scripture At The Same Level Of Authority, Then We Would Be More Open To Slavery, To The Subjugation Of Women, To Wider Use Of Stoning. Jesus Himself Spoke Out Frequently Against Divorce In The Strongest Of Terms.

[t]o Argue That Something Is So Because It Is In The Bible Is More Than Intellectually Bankrupt.

I Believe That My Children, Who Are Young, Will Look Back On The Early Years Of The 21st Century In Rather The Same Way I Look Back On The Middle Of The 20th: As A Time When Seemingly Respectable People Supported Discrimination Against Americans Simply Because Those Americans Were Different From Themselves.

We Often Talk Too Much & Listen Too Little. The Surer Route To Winning A Friend Isn't To Convince Them That You're Right, But That You Care What They Think.

Part Of What I Loved - And Love - About Being Around Older People Is The Tangible Sense Of History They Embody. I'm Interested In Military History, For Instance, Because Both My Grandfathers Fought In World War Ii. I'm Interested In Writing Because One Of Those Grandfathers Wrote Books.