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Just as I have previously been utterly let down by Dawkins and Hitchens, each of who brought absolutely nothing new to the game, I had some hope (being Fromm's "eternal sucker") when I glimpsed the leader into this piece. But no. Nothing new here. Nothing significantly pro or con.
I've had better luck with an exchange with a professed (but not militant) atheist professor at a school in Pennsylvania. I've had far better luck with my own empericist daughter (who denies being an atheist -- and I agree, she's not -- but would like something solid to grab onto and has so far not found it).
But far worse than the academic exercises carried out in the name of God or Not God by Kauffman or Hitchens or anybody other than, perhaps, those amazing contemporaries Einstein and Tielhard, I find little to nothing. Bring an agenda to the table and you've essentially screwed yourself and wasted everyone's time except for that of the nihilists and the fundies who love to crash together like waves in the wake up a speedboat after one of these lame expositions are spent here.
And yet -- and yet there is something more than meaningless and something more than "just God" that animates my world. I'm not sure I care what it's called. In fact, please quit trying to name it, define it and reduce it to a single dimension. Just leave off the whole exercise and be in the present moment. Everything else is truly meaningless.
Another slew of brain cells fried over nothing. Have fun arguing over this latest nothing. A rainbow is no less wondrous for all your aimless attempts to reduce its meaning, which is entirely based upon the context in which the witness happens to view it.
Wonder is all that matters. Science and religion can both go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. Here's to life, whatever it is and however "meaningless" it may be. It wouldn't be so meaningless nor so tainted if I pointed a gun at some atheist's head -- or some religious nut's either. Suddenly life would become sacred for that fuckwad.
Context is everything. Feel or shut up.
