Jan
11
2008
Another take on Athesim
I found this quote over at Andrew Sullivan’s blog. It’s very similar to something I wrote a short while ago.
“… it is crucial that people who do not have a sky god and don’t have a set of supernatural beliefs assert their belief in moral values and in love and in the transcendence that they might experience in landscape or art or music or sculpture or whatever. Since they do not believe in an afterlife, it makes them give more valence to life itself. The little spark that we do have becomes all the more valuable when you can’t be trading off any moments for eternity,” - Ian McEwen, in The New Republic.
