"The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more."
How can a man whose every word, whether spoken or written, was carefully and artfully planned with cutting precision, and always subjugated to the coercive authority of logic, not be missed? He was the exact opposite of the obscurantists and equivocators he relentlessly exposed.
How can a man whose every word, whether spoken or written, was carefully and artfully planned with cutting precision, and always subjugated to the coercive authority of logic, not be missed? He was the exact opposite of the obscurantists and equivocators he relentlessly exposed.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
