It's a long story. Want a refill?"
"No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?"
"Right here."
"Well, push it."
"Me? You offered to cook."
"Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger"
"As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.
Tags: humour science-fiction stranger-in-a-strange-land
I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: religion science-fiction stranger-in-a-strange-land
Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: stranger-in-a-strange-land
The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the superiority of their children- has never been plumbed.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: stranger-in-a-strange-land
That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: god religion crime priests stranger-in-a-strange-land
I don't pay any attention to politics."
"You should. It's only barely less important than your own heartbeat."
"I don't pay any attention to that either.
Tags: stranger-in-a-strange-land
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