The War Prayer

It was a time of great and exalting excitement…

My Pledge of Allegiance

I reject all appeals to “authority”, “divine command”, and “patriotism” to legitimize any body of knowledge, truth, and ethics…

Beware any “authority”, creed, or enterprise that sweeps inexplicable suffering under the rug called “God’s will”…

I don’t believe in SIN…

Even if blessed with a hundred healthy years on this planet…

DEATH–that vicious constraint that awaits us all–transforms life into a very serious business…

If, by some miracle, all the world’s religions became one, peace and freedom erupted everywhere, and man-made cruelty vanished forever…

Only those who live in insular bubbles think that the “end times” are to be found in some remote future and distant Armageddon…

Crushed by the countless absurdities, injustices, and pointless sufferings that define this fleeting, tenuous existence…

Reverence for—and practice of—secular humanist values is the only path to sustainable peace and justice everywhere…

Call me an ATHEIST if you will, but do know this…

I don’t believe in god(s)…