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Topic: Religions > Atheism
User: "Enkidu"
Date: 20 Dec 2005 02:59:36 PM
Object: Somerset Maugham, rational atheist.
"I cannot believe in a God that has neither honor nor common sense."
and
"The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are
no more cogent when you take them together.... For my part, I cannot see
how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed,
and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think
that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in
any sense a survival of myself."
and
"Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will
not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning."
and
"The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to
love."
--
Enkidu AA#2165
http://www.musings.leaddogs.org/
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
PGP ID: 0xC4CE8CF0
The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
-- Hungarian proverb
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