Percentage of born-again U.S. Christians who have been divorced: 35
Percentage of other Americans who have been: 35
Chances that the divorce of a born-again Christian happened after he or she accepted Christ: 9 in 10
Estimated number of young Christians in 1995 who had pledged to wait until marriage for sex: 2,500,000
Estimated percentage who waited: 12
Offering truth beyond the mere black and white.
"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." -- Antonio Gramsci
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell
Sunday, July 03, 2005
Harper's Index is always chock-full of interesting, and very revealing, items. Some examples from April's edition:
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