those who wish to pursue the truth must forsake peace of mind and devote their life to inquiry. “This I knew at twenty-one, half a life ago. It is time for you to learn it: it must be your basic starting place. You must choose between comfort and true inquiry! If you choose science, if you choose to be liberated from the soothing chains of the supernatural, if, as you claim, you choose to eschew belief and embrace godlessness, then you cannot in the same breath yearn for the small comforts of the believer! If you kill God, you must also leave the
