…your thought is a tree rooted deep in the soil of tradition and whose branches grow in the power of continuity…my thought is a cloud moving in the space…your thought is an ancient dogma that cannot change you nor can you change it…my thought is new, and it tests me and I test it morn and eve…you have your thought and I have mine…

…this question of morality is an important one to focus on, because many people are attached to religion not because they’re convinced that the metaphysics make sense, but because they just see no other alternative to teaching kids, you know, right and wrong. I think there’s a few obvious things to point out. One is that we clearly don’t get our morality out of our holy books. Because when you go into the holy books, they are bursting with cruelty…