What she missed from her brief forays into religious experiences was a sense of awareness, that if one assumes there is a God, one also assumes there is someone who gives us something. The Big Bang, Sara thought, was like believing that a buffet had appeared out of nowhere and all you had to do was grab yourself a fork and eat before someone else gobbled it up. This led to a greedy way of thinking. If, instead, one assumed that nature itself is God hosting a feast, or that all species—including humans—are a kind of study group or housing cooperative hosting the party together, it inspires a
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