Josephus is the first historian to make note of Jesus having even existed – and that happened six full decades after his death.

New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth.

Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.

It is vital to see not only what Christianity asserts, but where its precepts came from – how they evolved from primitive, superstitious metaphysical claims into “Gospel Truth”.

The only difference between holding one god as exclusive or supreme and believing in many gods specialized in function is the number.

In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.

You encounter, at its core, a subjective Reality, one based on meaning and value reflective of your own Self, not an objective universe, cold, particle-based and indifferent as science projects.

Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality.

That means 19 or 20 of the books of the NT (New Testament) are anonymous. Many are blatantly pseudepigraphic (forgeries, see next section), with famous names applied to artificially promote veracity.

The gospels, never meant to report, butrather to convince, are in no sense objective and dispassionate biographies. They are glowing accounts meant to persuade people of the writers’ convictions.

Healing is the hardest thing you'll ever do.' ~Quinn

A team goal requires a team effort.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

The life I live is my art work.

Only joy comes from song.

Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with a social market economy, because it takes both tendencies into account.

If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man can develop the capacity to love.

[Alex] Haley's objective was quite different. Haley was a republican. He was an integrationist. He was very opposed to black nationalism.

A bubble is only called that after it bursts, after the insiders get out, leaving the pension funds and small investors, Canadians and other naïve investors holding the bag.