George W. Bush, Jr.
Forty-third President of the United States

dedication

for Rob,
who demands considered thought

for Warren,
who challenges with knowledge

and for Clint,
who inspires with welcome enthusiasm


dirtcentral.com is dedicated to the proposition that politics and religion do absolutely nothing to improve our lives or answer any questions about our place in the universe, but are endless sources of humor and amusement, because if we don't laugh at them they really might make us miserable.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment of Christianity has been upon trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
James Madison

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classified with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated Reformer of human errors.
Thomas Jefferson

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we contenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecution.
Thomas Jefferson

In this, the milieu of American aberration, where scoundrels of misguided conviction nurture acrimony, tax trust with pernicious falsehood and squander young lives in wars of dubious merit, let us mourn the God from whom they claim righteousness, for they vacate the comfort He can provide the wretched masses and cast Him as they are, unholy custodians of an unjust world.
Anonymous