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“As far as I’m concerned, religion is public transportation I never use. This God â€� I like traveling in his direction, on foot if necessary, but I don’t want to take an organized trip.”
― The Meursault Investigation: A Novel
― The Meursault Investigation: A Novel
“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
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“The pre-Socratic Xenophanes famously commented, “Ethiopians have gods with snub noses and black hair, Thracians gods with gray eyes and red hair,â€� and remarked, “But if oxen (and horses) and lions had hands or could draw with hands and create works of art like those made by men, horses would draw pictures of gods like horses, and oxen of gods like oxen, and they would make the bodies [of their gods] in accordance with the form that each species itself possesses.”
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
Mike’s 2024 Year in Books
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