I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

Did you ever realize how much the kind of religion we have depends on the region and family - where we're born, isn't it? Maybe it'll be hard for you to admit- but the most probably- if you are born in Ukraine, where I am now- you would be Christian and on the contrary- I would become a 100% Muslim if I'm born in your country... so, do we really differ so much?!

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.