Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel

Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances.  -Theodore Dreiser, 1941.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly cre...