I worry about what people might choose to hear if I stray anywhere near concepts that can be reinterpreted as sins-of-the-fathers or Those-Xs-have brought-Y-on-themselves-because-They're-all-Z.

Babylon 5 brought me a fresh appreciation of mathematical probability and its retelling as the capriciousness of supernatural beings:

"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
- Marcus Cole to Franklin, A Late Delivery from Avalon