I was more than happy with just remaining a deist, and this made me realize that I had a fundamental problem with religion as a whole: over the centuries, we have somehow managed to put God in a box and wrap it in multiple layers of tradition, dogma, and religism—so much so, that we have effectively organized God out of organized religion.

[…] the novelizing spirit of man lives by variety, and the new faces of things.

Houston visited a home in an early pioneer settlement where he was offered a bowl of red. Houston eagerly took his first large spoonful. His eyes watering, he spat out his bite […]

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