A question I like to ponder as a nonbeliever.

Who is the better man; the man who lives a good, moral life full of "good works" because he is looking forward to the promise of paradise or because he fears the retribution of a supreme being or the man who does not believe in god, the promise of paradise and eternal life but yet still lives a good moral life full of "good works" expecting nothing in return but the satisfaction that he was a good man?

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"If you want the government to give you puppies and rainbows, don't pout when you're picking up dog shit in the rain"
--Skull Pilot


...being permitted to vote for politicians who enact unjust, oppressive new laws magically converts the stripes on prison shirts into emblems of freedom.
--James Bovard

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
-- U.S. Supreme Court, in American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382,442

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
- Wendell Johnson

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
-- Thomas Carlyle