State of world affairs

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
-Steven Weinberg (1999)

"Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind."
-Thomas Jefferson

I think I liked it better when they sacrificed virgins to the volcano—at least it was more civilized.