It's all pretty ridiculous, that thing with Huckabee. Obama's father became an atheist before he met his mother, and his mother was essentially an agnostic and a daughter of nonpracticing Baptists and Methodists.
Unless Wikipedia lies, of course. Who knows who is telling the truth anymore, right?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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