Most people simply aren’t unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown

The Bible Belt is collapsing. The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, 'you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,' is soon to be gone. Good riddance.

Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to.

Established churches not infrequently formed an alliance with the aristocracy , joining arm in arm against change.

If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.