RE: Why be good?
June 3, 2015 at 7:35 pm
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2015 at 7:35 pm by Cyberman.)
"I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell."
-- Robert Green Ingersoll, "How To Be Saved" (1880)
-- Robert Green Ingersoll, "How To Be Saved" (1880)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'