The Humanist Symposium
…It was on Greta Christina’s blog that I learned about a new way to share love and traffic among like-minded blogs, called a BlogCarnival. My own piece on Raising a Non-Believer was hosted soon thereafter by The Humanist Symposium, and now I’m doing my bit in return… [more]
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I read this in several of the articles (or in my musings on them): Having a god show up at the end and, like Shecky Green, coming up with a snaappy punchline — I can think of nothing more horrible. Well, perhaps knowing the punchline in advance, as those folks with no tolerance for ambiguity do — that might be worse.
Having all the events of your life — the death of your parents, the sun through the trees at a place you love, the love of your lover, the joy of your friends — reduced to mere build-up to some stupid punchline by some sadist of a god — that would be meaningless.
Thank you for a wonderful collection.
Comment by Rev. Bob — February 5, 2008 @ 8:08 pm