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Notes

1. Mark Twain, Roughing It (1872; rpt., New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961 printing), 83.
2. Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope (New York: Penguin, 2000), 201.
3. Blaise Pascal, Pensées, note 233, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager (accessed January 14, 2010).
4. Harold Bloom, The American Religion: The Emergence of the PostChristian Nation (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993).

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