"We don’t know what the earliest religion was like, but certainly it involved some sort of ritual. As far as we know, ritual never exists without prayer of some kind, so we can assume they came about simultaneously, and both seem immensely old."

"‘By annihilating the wicked I lightened the great weight on the globe. I delivered the country by establish…"

"My last vestige of "hands-off religion" respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11, …"

"It is not ponderable things alone that are found in gardens, but the great wonder of life, the peace of nat…"

"Before Google Docs existed, those rare times I met software engineers, I’d ask them to please create softwa…"

"Man is what he is, because a spiritual element has entered into, and taken possession of, animal consciousn…"

"India is still foreign to me, it's a familiar foreignness in some way, but it's still surprising. When you …"