Virtual Illusions

A bit from the Niel Gaiman blog

“I got an enforced day off from blogging yesterday, while little gnomey men with long whiskery beards and hammers and crowbars and serious swiss army knives clambered about behind the scenes here at neilgaiman.com hammering and banging and taking blogger archive URLs apart and inspecting them with pursed lips and shaken heads and the occasional muttered “‘oo put this together then, eh? some cowboy? cor struth. It’s a wonder it’s lasted this long,” before putting them back together again with all their grommets refitted and their wicket-hasps rebored.”

– Niel Gaiman
http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2004/05/toad-mating-balls-who-knew.asp

Quote

“If I could now conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution… [E]very man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshiping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.”

(Stokes, supra, p. 495. (Quoting George Washington))
from http://members.tripod.com/~candst/bjcpa1.htm (A Critique of David Barton’s “America’s Godly Heritage”)

Philosophy/Religion, Politics, Quote