Some of these atheists really take things too seriously

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So I happened to repeat an observation made several times before by many other people, and that is at any case not to be taken in total earnest (evidence for the existence of God can be sought in slightly more fundamental areas): that atheists with a taste for fine things are unlucky, because they have nobody to be grateful to for them. Suddenly a couple of atheists have me in a death grip all over my page, and, through a fog of misunderstandings, misexplainations, and one or two downright lies, they are trying to - I don't quite know, but do some damage to my statement one way or another. Folks, whether or not you are as bad at philosophy as I think you are, don't you think you ought to find more serious things (including, yes, more serious statements from me) to get intense about?

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Let me see. As compared to what? We only know one universe. And at any rate, to be grateful to the universe as a whole is more than half way through, emotionally speaking, to being grateful to God. The very assumption that the totality of things that exist can be addressed, perceived, and emotionally experienced as a totality, as a unity, goes well beyond any materialism, for it places upon mere matter an overarching unitary conception that almost begs to be developed into a metaphysic. But that is not philosophy, only psychology.

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As compared to what? We only know one universe.

The thought has occurred to me too. But the Universe is big and bright and beautiful enough that from my human viewpoint, it is a very lovely thing indeed.

And at any rate, to be grateful to the universe as a whole is more than half way through, emotionally speaking, to being grateful to God.

The existence of the Universe implies many things. A sapient Creator who can be personally communicated with is not one of them, however.

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I did not say that it is all the way to it, and I did not say that it was a logical procedure.