On Hell and Forgiveness

[vulcanlogician]

See, I actually like spinoza...but I have a novel take.  The man was trolling the religious when trolling the religious was still an offense punishable by summary execution, lol.

Yes, and his trolling was delightful.

But also, I think he did revere nature with the same enthusiasm (or possibly even more) with which theists venerate their gods. So reading him as "ice cold materialism" is a centimeter or two off the mark as well.