"What can be made of atheists, then? If the evolutionary view of religion is true, they have to work hard at being atheists, to resist slipping into intrinsic habits of mind that make it easier to believe than not to believe."
Conversation with myself:
You're still left with that endemic need (that endemic hole) to believe in something. But, confined by logic and rationality, is it possible to fill that? If you can't fill it with god, can you fill it with love? no. beauty? even that is stretching it. Do you limp along with that huge hole in your side, constantly searching while constantly being disappointed? If you're not imaginative enough to fill it yourself, can you relish in the imagination of others? Is it enough to know that other people have something to believe in, even if you yourself do not? No.
Conversation with Zooey:
Yes, Zooey, you were right. Science seems to agree with you. But, tell me, what is my religion?
Silence.
Hmm...
To think, to think, to thinking I must go.
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i believe
in you
and walks and masking tape and water around the sink and black dye and the sun at the horizon and chorizo and ring tones. the holes i have are left by people not spirit. but not you.
yes, i believe
in you, too.
maybe that is the most important part. not necessarily the object of the belief (be it person, spirit, fable, mineral, or vegetable) but the actual CAPACITY to believe.
we need that capacity so that when something comes along that is worth believing in (friend, beauty, love, chorizo), we don't pass it up.
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