But this is God. It is certainly what I understand as God. Nonbelievers need to let go of anthropocentric, grey-bearded beings in the sky for God itself, the highest consciousness of all, and the force that gives this staggering beauty, available to us all, love.And why the non-stop insistence on so-called meaning? We gave up looking some time ago, having come to the sensible conclusion, well articulated by the late Jimbo M., that we can do no more than attempt to "get our kicks before the whole shit-house goes up in flames." Yes, hedonism is as good a reason to exist as any. (Or should we seek pain & suffering?)
We just don't understand why those confronted w/ a universe that, they admit, is
massive in scale, in what we see and what we can't. There are galaxies cropping up constantly. There are infinite numbers of stars and in certain places, forests of true nothing. On our own planet, there are countless species of life from Zebras down to bacteria. The life of our planet itself, the rumble of its earthquakes, the sweeps and horrors of its tornadoes and hurricanes. Hold onto all that for a second and then think about the human experience.can then delude themselves that the "human experience" (And certainly not any given individual's experience.) has any purpose or reason.
Fuck it, we have to go to the market & buy shit, 'though why we bother is an excellent question.
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And his point is?
Or should we seek pain & suffering?
Shirley this is the reason you visit that awful site and read the output of this horrible human?
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Religion Desk Editor:
We don't "visit," it's in the J.A.B. (From L.A.)™ reader. We occasionally steal links & whatnot his legion of flunkies come up w/. And if we can find the occasional droning idiocy that allows us to trumpet our anti-stupidity platform, it's a bonus.
And his point is?
The top of his head, we guess.
Or you could just spare us and say this is what Andrew Sullivan thinks (or, "thinks," I guess)...
...Karen Armstrong wrote of the Deus Otiosus, a god so etiolated that it no longer represented anything meaningful..like sullivan himself, who is so contrary that he only represents his own twisted solipsism...
Martyrdom Editor:
We've suffered enough. Now it's your turn!
Good rant.
I'm reminded of the way I felt when I watched Christopher Hitchens debate religion with Tony Blair, as the latter kept backing and filling after being forced to admit, over and over again, that no sane person would believe X, where X was any specific example of the sort of things that people Have Faith in.
Also. had the irritating experience of reading this yesterday, due to the link having been prominently featured on the NYT's home page, and I got the exact same feeling as Sully provoked in you:
For a nation of talkers and self-confessors, we are terrible when it comes to talking about God. The discourse has been co-opted by the True Believers, on one hand, and Angry Atheists on the other. What about the rest of us?
And of course, I stopped reading just about there.
Religion Beat Reporter:
Rant? A carefully reasoned ... aaahh.
What about the rest of us?
Apathetic Agnostics, perhaps?
"Rant" is a compliment, as I used it here. Doesn't mean it's lacking in reason, just that it's got that plus not being afraid to show some emotion.
"The rest of us?" I call them faitheists.
Editor:
Just being huffy. If our feelings (Hah!) were hurt we wouldn't've typed a word.
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