Faith: belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Pray: to ask that the laws of the universe be nullified on behalf of a single petitioner, admittedly unworthy.
Logic: the art of of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human understanding.
Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Alliance: in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.