The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you. - Carroll Quigley

The fundamentalist position on biblical interpretation, with its emphasis on the explicit, complete, final, and authoritarian nature of Scripture, is a very late, minority view quite out of step with the Western tradition.

When Rome fell, the Christian answer was, "Create our own communities."

The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation.