Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.

We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms.

Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.