Quixotica

(via Unreasonable Faith)

Dear Mr. President,


I know you did something like this to remind your audience that you're an Average Joe, just a regular guy who leaves work every once in a while for a burger run with his buddies. I know it was a beautifully staged slice of daily life, I know it had everything to do with the cameras and I know that you probably couldn't give two shits about Ray's famous Hell Burgers. I know how your clever mind works, and I've only one thing to say:

Keep it up man, and don't ever change. You're the best President ever.

“Too great praise challenges attention, and often brings to light a thousand faults that otherwise the general eye would never see.

Were we allowed to read the Bible as we do all other books, we would admire its beauties, treasure its worthy thoughts, and account for all its absurd, grotesque and cruel things, by saying that its authors lived in rude, barbaric times. But we are told that it was written by inspired men; that it contains the will of God; that it is perfect, pure, and true in all its parts; the source and standard of all moral and religious truth; that it is the star and anchor of all human hope; the only guide for man, the only torch in Nature’s night.

These claims are so at variance with every known recorded fact, so palpably absurd, that every free, unbiased soul is forced to raise the standard of revolt.”

—Robert Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

(Courtesy of Unreasonable Faith)