I used to dread being asked whether or not I believed in God. Either answer aligns you with an entirely new set of certainties. Say ‘yes’ and you’re certain of a myth, you say ‘God bless you’ and mean it quite literally, you commit to a wild insanity of faith. Say ‘no’ and you’re an atheist: confident, assured and certain of the scientific method and all of its own twisted ideas – string theory, infinite universes, emergent consciousness – equally strange, equally alien, each requiring its own version of that insane faith. I know now that it’s certainty itself I have a problem with. Certainty
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