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Originally Posted by willravel
Every time I see a religious ontological argument or religious science, I get pissed.
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By whatever and by however many predicates we may think a thing — even if we completely determine it — we do not make the least addition to the thing when we further declare that this thing is. ... If we think in a thing every feature of reality except one, the missing reality is not added by my saying that this defective thing exists. —Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, B628
Don't get pissed. Use reason over emotion. 
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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