Faith Is A Continuum, And We Each

When A Question Has No Correct Answer, There Is Only One Honest Response. The Gray Area Between Yes And No. Silence.

Medicine, Electronic Communications, Space Travel, Genetic Manipulation . . . These Are The Miracles About Which We Now Tell Our Children. These Are The Miracles We Herald As Proof That Science Will Bring Us The Answers. The Ancient Stories Of Immaculate Conceptions, Burning Bushes, And Parting Seas Are No Longer Relevant. God Has Become Obsolete. Science Has Won The Battle.

Faith Is Universal. Our Specific Methods For Understanding It Are Arbitrary. Some Of Us Pray To Jesus, Some Of Us Go To Mecca, Some Of Us Study Subatomic Particles. In The End We Are All Just Searching For Truth, That Which Is Greater Than Ourselves.

One Final Bit Of Advice. The Next Time A Senior Administrator Of The Cia Tells You She Has A National-security Crisis Leave The Bullshit In Cambridge.

As He Flushed, An Unexpected Realization Hit Him. This Is The Pope's Toilet, He Thought. I Just Took A Leak In The Pope's Toilet. He Had To Chuckle. The Holy Throne.