'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
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I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no...
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for...
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the...
I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it...
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So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a...
I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm...
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I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They...
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
As a reward for their efforts however those early Christians were beaten...
I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether...