At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
We really ought to pass a law forbidding people from atending church or sunday school until they are 18. To wit: old enough to decide for themselves, instead of having it forced on them by zealous parents. bk