(April 19, 2015 at 5:13 pm)robvalue Wrote: If I thought there was a dude somewhere who could actually fix things and wasn't doing so, that would actually be even worse.
Yeah, belief in a god might actually make me more depressed, because I'd look around at the harsh world we live in and have to accept this was the best he could do. I could never be happy believing in a god that designed my sexual organ to also be a waste disposal unit.
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