“The World Series is stochastic. A team cannot carry over excess runs from one game to offset a future scoring deficit.”

“Are my sins ‘sins against the Holy Spirit’ and therefore unforgivable?”

“For millennia reluctant students have been trained in a system of geometry (Euclidean) that is incompatible with stability in any real world.”

“What direction would Western philosophy have taken if Christianity had not come along to divert the course of history?”

“The uber-pattern of the world is the logo that liberates us, that turns our free will into agency.”

“Did I convert Claude to Christianity, or did Claude come to these conclusions on its own…or is Claude just telling me what it thinks I want to hear?”

“I am who I am and that’s all that I am… I’m Popeye the Sailorman.”

“We can put a good figure on how much we know about the universe: 5%.”

“The Old Testament shows YHWH in perpetual moral crisis… The New Testament introduces all-loving Abba… One God, two faces!”

“Our graduation parties are well-intentioned, but they prepare our young adults for a world none of them will ever experience.”

“We are fascinated by a glimpse, however distorted, of the Infinite from our finite perspective. On the other hand, we are terrified.”

“Once again, civilization has descended into a version of polytheism, and we are all poorer as a result.”