We Must Continually Remind Ourselves That There

Where We Have Reasons For What We Believe, We Have No Need Of Faith; Where We Have No Reasons, We Have Lost Both Our Connection To The World And To One Another.

Advance Warning Of Katrina's Path Was Wrested From Mute Nature By Meteorological Calculations And Satellite Imagery. God Told No One Of His Plans. Had The Residents Of New Orleans Been Content To Rely On The Beneficence Of God, They Wouldn't Have Known That A Killer Hurricane Was Bearing Down Upon Them Until They Felt The First Gusts Of Wind On Their Faces. And Yet, As Will Come As No Surprise To You, A Poll Conducted By The Washington Post Found That 80 Percent Of Katrina's Survivors Claim That The Event Only Strengthened Their Faith In God.

The Freedom To Think Out Loud On Certain Topics, Without Fear Of Being Hounded Into Hiding Or Killed, Has Already Been Lost.

To Say That I Would Have Done Otherwise Had I Wanted To Is Simply To Say That I Would Have Lived In A Different Universe Had I Been In A Different Universe.

An Average Christian, In An Average Church, Listen To An Average Sunday Sermon Has Achieved A Level Of Arrogance Simply Unimaginable In Scientific Discourse -- And There Have Been Some Extraordinary Arrogant Scientists.