[betty boop]

"When I saw Hitchens flogging his new anti-theistic puerilemic on the Daily Show the other day, it occurred to me that I was seeing the intoxicating power of the cosmic No in all its nakedly cynical glory. ...."

"..in the absence of God, there is no reason to be impressed by anyone or anything, since 1) there is nothing we can know with certainty, 2) loveliness and beauty are simply illusions of the nervous system, and 3) believing untruth is morally indistinguishable from believing truth, since there is no ground for truth or morality anyway.

The fundamental "cosmic inversion," brilliantly analyzed by Dr. Godwin....

Thank you ever so much, dear Matchett-PI, for this splendid essay/post, and for the links to "GB!"

[Matchett-PI]

You’re welcome! :) bttt