Quotations by:
Beckerman, Marty
What are we? How are we? Why are we? These questions have haunted Mankind since the dawn of civilization. Those who claim to know the Answers — and feel the need to force their conclusions on others — are responsible for unspeakable bloodshed throughout history; it matters not if their conclusion is Godliness or Atheism. A fundamentalist is a fundamentalist, a butcher is a butcher, and an asshole is an asshole.
The orthodox of all persuasions — Jews and Christians and Muslims, theists and atheists, leftists and rightists — get so wrapped up in their eternal quests, their conversion campaigns, their apocalypses and their utopias, the Rapture and the Revolution, that they forget to ENJOY their infinitesimal time on earth. They forget LIFE, LOVE, LAUGHTER and LIBERTY. Why would anyone make that mistake? God only knows.