Erin Pettigrew

Dec 26 2008 LINK
A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.
— From Bertrand Russel’s essay “Why I Am Not a Christian.” For anyone whose Christmas is a modern tradition based on the celebration of all our fellow men rather than just one.