Cosmic Ape Wrote:But maybe just maybe she'd be happier without it? Just a thought.
Perhaps, and I can't say I wouldn't be elated if she told me she no longer believed. She's happy now though and doesn't push her beliefs, so I'm not going to make her go through that period it takes for the deconverted to realize happiness doesn't come from god.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell