I may go post it among the atheists for whom wry (and bitter) irony has supplanted all notion of the paradoxical.
I saw you make this comment a few weeks ago and it made me think of something I read recently. As you may have guessed, I appreciate irony, as long as it's not fueled by cynicism. Anyway, here's the passage. Let's see if anyone can guess its author.
..the postmodernist irony is merely an attempt to recapturre an ingredient in all true philosophy--in all philosophy that recognizes that we are both subject and object, and that between these two lies an impassable barrier through which at every moment we must nevertheless pass.