Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. — WINSTON CHURCHILL - Dan Brown

Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith — acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors.

Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that we have proof the Buddha did not come from a lotus blossom? Or that Jesus was not born of a literal virgin birth? Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

Well, science and religion are not competitors, they’re two different languages trying to tell the same story. There’s room in this world for both.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.