I'm nonviolent, sir, so you may put down your dukes. You say Sam Harris quotes scripture "out of context." But your own quoting  of one commandment is also taking scripture "out of context," and quoting all Ten is still taking them out of context, and quoting the whole book of Exodus is taking it out of its biblical context, and citing the whole Bible is taking it out of its historical context, and referring to an entire historical period is taking it out of its chronological context, and to cite anything at all is to take it out of its context in the eternal wordless infinite mystery of the awesome and awful universe all of which I have no objection to your calling "god."

Lao Tsu: "The unknown is infinitely greater than the known."

Lao Tsu: "The names of the Tao are not the true Tao."

Korzybski: "The map is not the territory."

Blake: "Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth."

Attributing to this "god," however, anthropomorphic traits I consider ridiculous, and even that term is not strong nor contemptuous enough, but I certainly don't mind your—or anybody's—commentary on anything I post. That's pretty much what we do here on Mindsay.

I'm not a Christian, I'm not a believer, I'm not a disbeliever, not an unbeliever, not an infidel, not an atheist, not an agnostic, not a Buddhist, not a utopian—and, though these labels are constantly stuck onto me, I am as free as I can keep myself of all labels, all religions, all ideologies, all gods, all "holy" books, though I consider them all and use of them whatever I think of value.

My only "god"—though to say this is also to speak an untruth—is nonviolence, period, but even that commitment is not absolute. I'm just Bob, hoping to travel from my birth to my death in this wide world war zone without having to kill somebody. So far so good. But, let me hasten to add, I forgive everybody who has not had the same good fortune and luck. As for the cruel, murderous, genocidal Lord of the Old Testament, fuck Him.