thread: 2005-08-09 : The New Open House 2: Religion
On 2005-09-22, Vincent wrote:
I'm going to cheat again and quote myself again. I put this in the mouth of a character in a short novel I wrote. He's talking about neopagans, but I think the point applies more broadly:
"Well, it's like here's Nature, glorious and various and undeniably true, and it's all around them all the time. And they're compelled to, I don't know, worship it or something. Compartmentalize it into all these gods. This god and this god and this god, but not this god, and this isn't a god it's some other kind of made up thing.
"...Maybe they can't believe that Nature doesn't care about them," he says. "Isn't that why anybody makes gods? To be worshipped themselves? To be a Creation instead of just, you know. An honest animal."
