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Historian and former nun Karen Armstrong says the afterlife is a "red herring," hating religion is a pathology and that many Westerners cling to infantile ideas of God.
  • measurable effects, experiments

    Are you sure there is no experiment to test the God hypothesis? Think outside of scientific method. Does beauty or wonder ever invite you to open yourself up in new ways to the possibility of a mysterious presence? Think outside of all the available limiting conceptions of God, too. Science makes great contributions to knowledge and helps us understand reality. Religion and the human spirit have something to say there, too. Religion speaks a different language but can lead to very helpful insights into human existence. God, or that which is beyond all our descriptions of God, is central to that discourse. And it can be tested.