Quote of the Day for 2016-03-27 Easter Sunday

"Many Christians don't want to hear this, but the reality is that there are lots of other explanations for what happened to Jesus that are more probable than the explanation that he was raised from the dead. None of these explanations is very probable, but they are more probable, just looking at the matter historically, than the explanation of the resurrection."

— Bart D. Ehrman (1955-    ) Jesus, Interrupted, chapter 5 (2009)

Christ's Appearance to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection by Alexander Ivanov (1835)

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-20

"But what experience and historians teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on the principles deduced from it."

— Georg Hegel (1770-1831) Lectures on the Philosophy of History, "Introduction"

George W. Bush and his inner circle, photographed in the Cabinet Room of the White House in December 2001. From left: Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vice President Dick Cheney, the president, National-Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, White House chief of staff Andrew Card, C.I.A. director George Tenet (seated), and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld., Photograph by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair.