It’s been awhile since I properly boggled at this topic. I remember reading Beyond the Reach of God and feeling like it conveyed something that had managed to never come across despite all my years of exploring atheism as a topic. Like, I already believed there wasn’t a God and that bad things happened, but somehow it made me do a doubletake and go like “no, really tho”.
But I’ve remained a little confused or at a loss for words about “what exactly was happening, when I read Beyond the Reach of God?”, and I feel like this post does a good job putting words to that and exploring it in detail.
I think this post is more longwinded and meandering than I’d like, but I think it also somewhat benefits from that, since it serves as a kind of guided meditation on the topic that isn’t necessarily right to “rush”.
Curated.
It’s been awhile since I properly boggled at this topic. I remember reading Beyond the Reach of God and feeling like it conveyed something that had managed to never come across despite all my years of exploring atheism as a topic. Like, I already believed there wasn’t a God and that bad things happened, but somehow it made me do a doubletake and go like “no, really tho”.
But I’ve remained a little confused or at a loss for words about “what exactly was happening, when I read Beyond the Reach of God?”, and I feel like this post does a good job putting words to that and exploring it in detail.
I think this post is more longwinded and meandering than I’d like, but I think it also somewhat benefits from that, since it serves as a kind of guided meditation on the topic that isn’t necessarily right to “rush”.