Looking forward to checking out Jon Stewart's new book: Earth: Everything An Alien Tourist Needs To Know About The Planet After Human Beings Are Gone
It’s funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated world wide as perhaps man’s greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon’s desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet was. Its singular astonishing beauty. We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we took her for granted and treated her like shit. So welcome to Earth… population, you. - Jon Stewart
Religion helped overcome man’s catastrophic tendency toward neighborliness and smoothed the way for millennia of wars – allowing millions of people to discover, first-hand, whether or not their religion was right about the whole “post-death non-oblivion” thing. To sum up: Religion provided great comfort to a world torn apart…by religion. - Jon Stewart
