I GOT MYSELF A GUN/AND I CAN SHOOT DOWN EVERYONE/THINKING I JUST INVENTED SOME RELIGION:

Pinker’s attempt to ground the hope of peace in science is profoundly instructive, for it testifies to our enduring need for faith. We don’t need science to tell us that humans are violent animals. History and contemporary experience provide more than sufficient evidence. For liberal humanists, the role of science is, in effect, to explain away this evidence.

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SPAIN VS. GOD: THE ENDARKENING: The entirety of Dali's paintings for The Divine Comedy, here; and for Alice in Wonderland (!), here. These are amazing, by the way--Rattus and I saw some of them in New York, and these web clips really don't do them justice. The Divine Comedy ones, especially, showed Dali's ability to work in such a wide range of styles, from Toulouse-Lautrec curvilinearity to watercolor wash to fleshy realism, and deploy each style in service of an entirely Christian surrealism.