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“[His work] could no longer hide what he wanted it to hide; [it] could not rescue him from It. And the worst thing was that It drew his attention not so that he would do anything, but merely so that he would look at It, look It straight in the face and, doing nothing, suffer unspeakable agony.”

“Before there was light, now there is darkness. Before I was here, now I am going there. Where?” He broke out in a cold sweat, his breathing died down. All he could hear was the beating of his heart.
“I’ll be gone. What will there be then? Nothing. So where will I be when I’m gone? Can this really be death? No! I don’t want this!”

“All they had left were the rare periods of amorousness that came over them, but these did not last long. They were merely little islands at which the couple anchored for a while before setting out again on a sea of veiled hostility, which took the form of estrangement from one another.”

I can “hear” the authors voice more than the story unfolding; writing style is a little clunky. Tired of the “Junk Box Incident”…sounds like a real amateur title

“He explained how he could appreciate the beauty of the building without believing in the God for whose glory it was built. But taking containers of faith…while rejecting the object at its core has always seemed like an empty pursuit to be, like ripping off layers of wrapping on a present on Christmas morning only to find no gift inside, just an empty box and a mountain of waste paper around you.”

So when you come to the conclusion that “there is no God,” that’s just the way your brain happens to end up fizzing. And when I claim that there “is a God,” that’s just the way my brain fizzes. But the atoms aren’t doing any reasoning. It’s all just a series of physical events…they Aren’t the least bit interested in the truth or falsity of the thoughts they are producing.

The moral argument is not about how you arrive at your moral beliefs, but how you ground them as true and binding for everybody.