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like i said, i think god is just a word.
i believe that the word exists: what it refers to is an empty space that people fill in with projections.
i dont think that there is any pre-ordained order to the world. there is order, but it doesn't originate with any god.
i think religions hamfisted institutions geared around defending the existing order: reactionary backward foul institutions.
but i wouldn't call myself an atheist for the reasons i outlined above. the arguments are internally inconsistent. they are unnecessary. besides, if you look at the etymology (i love etymologies) i bit above, you can see that the word comes from an inversion of theism. it is the reverse image of what it opposes.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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