Quote:I don't have faith in the existence of a god. I have faith in the existence of instructions that have inescapable rational authority. But not in a god. If someone can show me how instructions that inescapably confer reasons to all to whom they are directed could be created by something other than a god, I'm all ears and I'll instantly drop my belief in a god.
A really powerful ghost of a horse could have inescapable rational authority instead.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.