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 That church of theirs does a lot more harm than good if I'm telling the truth. Making promises you know you can't keep is bound to be wed with disaster of every variety it gets its lousy breath on and faith will prove itself as less and less when your luck is running low on the good days and is hardly a condescending rumor on the bad ones.  It pays to be stoic. It pays to realize stoicism has more to do with confidence than faith.  It's the sort of thing that people who're paid to give speeches & lectures tell you all the time but you don't see much of it playing a role in routine society. Maybe it was there more at the turn of the last century, when whatever excitement accompanied the construction of the railroads and was lifting towards nuclear technology and rapid advancements in telecommunication was still in its becoming, before complacency flowed in like some obligatory eighth day of the week. (I'll try to refrain from too many cliches, but it'll ...