"I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why ( Read more... )

Some lyrics from Death Cab for Cutie:

I got my knuckles bruised
by a lady in black
I held my tongue
as she told me
"Son, fear is the heart of love"
so I never went backThat is why I am an atheist. Fear is never the heart of love. Fear is not love. Ever. And I don't care if God is real and I spend an eternity burning in hell. If God is fear, he ( Read more... )

"You got the same father I got. A hobo just left on the midnight train and died, lost at sea."
- Charles Manson, to his son.

In one sense, mother is God in the eyes of a child, but in another, father is the most potent symbol of God simply by his absence.