I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
“I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.”
“The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.”