"This was all a bit much for me. The tone was right— loving and brave—but the details seemed bleak. I said nothing. It wasn’t for fear of angering [him]. I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he might destroy something that I loved. What if his words had the effect of polio on me? What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man."
- from Life of Pi by Yann Martel

"What counts as a religious service? I religiously go on my computer, check my email and facebook, every morning and every night. Does this mean the computer is my alter where I worship the god Internet?"
- Leeah Ôchumuk

Religious freedom? 

Don’t ever tell me the fight is not over and that Native Americans have it great. This is an email I received last week:

“Unfortunately, the manager of the Assawompsett Pond Complex, Nancy Yeatts and her people at the Town of Lakeville have unfairly (and quite rudely) asked us to remove the lodge, and are threatening to do it themselves.  Of course, we don’t want to do this, and we have every right to be there, having broken no laws in exercising our religious freedom as Native Americans, nor as citizens of the United States on public land.  Betty’s Neck, as many of you may know, is still disputed as having been occupied illegally by the invaders.  Despite this, the Town of Lakeville continues to occupy the land and to dictate the rules and regulations for using it as a park and conservation land.”