Top Highlights

• To say that the recent past was pregnant with the present is to say, among other things, that tendencies whose heartbeat we might have had to strain to detect just a few years ago are now fully birthed, out in the open, kicking and screaming for all to see.
• the true spirit of religion, which builds people up and gives their lives meaning.
• like any pure religious person,” Spell said, “death looks to [us] like a welcomed friend.”
• throughout the history of philosophy, that rationality has its home not in the human mind or soul, but in nature as a whole, that whatever nature does is rational
• even slow deviations from the familiar, do not show the irrationality of nature