For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on wh… - Robert Green Ingersoll

Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.

^10. “When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, ^11. “And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife, ^12. “Then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails.”^{— Deut. Xxi.} This is barbarism, no matter whether it came from heaven or from hell, from a God or from a devil, from the golden streets of the New Jerusalem or from the very Sodom of perdition. It is barbarism complete and utter.

Every man who has thought, knows not only how little he knows, but how little every other human being knows, and how ignorant, after all, the world must be.