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The delicate atheist

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questioning, too high spirited to be satisfied with such

David Bentley-Hart

Nietzsche’s good manners

[Nietzsche] had the good manners to despise Christianity, in large part, for what it actually was--above all for its devotion to an ethics of compassion--rather than allow himself the soothing, self-righteous fantasy that Christianity's history had been nothing but an interminable pageant of violence,

Art

Atheistic surrogate for salvation

For myself, I remain an incorrigible atheist; that is my proclamation of faith. Yet there is something about the experience of art, itself, which compels me to re-introduce the category of the 'spiritual'. More than than, I believe that, given the ever-present absence of

David Foster Wallace

No such thing as atheism

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. — David Foster Wallace, This is Water