Barbara Ehrenreich, Living With A Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search For The Truth About Everything Quotes
A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is no longer either dead or passively obedient to the "laws.
That's what "meaning" is—a special additive like salt or garlic that could make even the most fetid piece of meat seem palpable, even delicious.
Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?
If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.
Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.
The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.
The Ten Commandments, for example, were no more challenging than the Girl Scout oath, and why should anyone be tempted to put one false god ahead of another?
In fact, the idea of a God who is both all-powerful and all good is a logical impossibility.
I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without having a considerable personal reserve of it to draw on.