And perhaps it’s this
that defines the atheist:
the intuition that,
were we to believe in God,
no amount of religious code,
no matter how muscular,
could ever prevent us
from falling headlong into him.
Because we know ourselves.
We have no illusions.
We recognize perfectly
our own insignificance, and with it
how feeble our claim on sanity really is.
We cling to the earth with our toenails.
-- Oliver Broudy, The Convert
(arranged quote)
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