We of alien looks or words must stick together.

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

Next time, involve me in what you’re planning. How had I gone so easily from feeling excluded to doing the excluding? Did I dislike the reminder that I hadn’t always been on the inside looking out? Was I so relieved to be there that I didn’t notice the people who still wanted desperately to be invited in? Had I learned that the only way to be part of a society was to shun its outcasts?

Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.

However much one lacks piety, the atmosphere in a graveyard encourages quiet reflection.