You know, Rick, I have not assumed that your life is without pleasure, informed by fear, lacking in comfort, somehow measly, because I believe that you are illuded about the source of the feelings which you attribute to the existence of a God entity residing elsewhere than in the mind and body of the human person.
It is ignorant of you to assume that of me.
Let me tell you something you clearly don't know: beauty, morality, value, dedication, aesthetic bliss, thrilling realizations, exquisite moments, awe, devotion, adoration, sacrifice, humor, flashes of deep perception, sympathy, empathy, hope, fervor, love beyond measure, levels and depths of meaning -- these life elements, or ways, are no less present in my life than they are in yours.
It is apparently beyond the reach of your imagination or comprehension or perhaps motivation to grasp this situation.
It is not beyond the reach of mine to grasp what it is that you and others who posit that meaning in life depends on the existence of an external God entity get out of buying that proposition.
I think you think that deism is a norm the deviation from which requires justification. I decline to justify it. I also decline to speak more personally than this on this thread. I simply tell you a fact: I am in the water too; and it seems to me that at this side of the river the water is a little bit purer.
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