Steve AllenThinkers

Antisemitism is a social evil that the new testament is clearly in part responsible for.

A Beggar is a thief who has lost his nerve.

Capital punishment is often rationalized by pointing to the bible. But if the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Comedy is a profession involving otherwise sane and responsible citizens who devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.

The Fundamentalist is a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, he is deaf to poetry, and very easily turns out to be more Godless than the agnostic and the unbeliever.

A Grandparent is a person who comes to the house, spoils the children, and then goes home.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

Laughter is so important to us humans that humanity highly rewards those who make a living by inducing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.

Laughter is an odd bodily gesture. We are left to wonder why it is a physical reflex and convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.

Man (human) is sort of roadhouse where his ancestors stop for a while on their way to become his descendants.

The Mayflower is a small ship on which several million Pilgrims came to America in 1620.