Apart from anything, we do not 'leave out the transcendent'. There is far more wonder in a great view from a hill on a summer's day, or a sunset, or a picture of a nebula, or a piece of music, than in their mumbo-jumbo. Indeed, there is something profoundly spiritual about it. We just don't attribute it to some mystical being.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
