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Alain de Botton — A School of Life for Atheists

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Most Boring and Unproductive Question One Can Ask of Any Religion

i grew up with this idea that e religion was not only wrong, but also stupid, silly, ridiculous. And then as i left home sudny, making my way in the world er, i started discovering lots of things tangentially associated with religion that were quite nice. I began to realize that religion, for all its flaws and for all its faults and all its excesses, had some high points that were incredibly interesting, fascinating, beautiful, inspiring. It took me a while to square this with, in a mind, my theism, the fact that iam not a believer. The argument about god does or doesn't exist is one where most individuals are not rationally aware

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