Favorite saying

• ""It Usually Depends" - Charles Inman circa 1995 "Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around." - Gore Vidal "The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death." - Gore Vidal "In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with a national religion like that of England, from whom we had just separated. It is curious how little understood this amendment is--yes, everyone has a right to worship any god he chooses but he does have the right to impose his beliefs on others who do not happen to share in his superstitions and taboos." "Christianity is such a silly religion." -Gore Vidal "I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system." - Gore Vidal “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers” - Neil Newhouse, Mitt Romney’s pollster"