To be honest, as a follower of Jesus, I cannot dismiss, as fluke, the truth and wisdom I've heard outside church walls simply because the words did not flow from the mouths of Christians. How can one miss the beauty and humor embedded in H. L. Mencken's caustic observation: "The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning...