ONE OF THE REASONS IT'S SO HARD TO TAKE ATHEISTS SERIOUSLY...:

Terry Pratchett hints he may have found God (Rob Davies, 08/06/2008, Daily Telegraph)

"I'm certainly not a man of faith, but as I was rushing down the stairs one day... it was very strange. I suddenly knew that everything was okay, that what I was doing was right, and I didn't know why.

"It was a thought that all the right things are happening in the circumstances, and I thought, 'Well that's all right then.' I don't actually believe in anyone who could have put that in my head - unless it was my dad, and he's been dead a few years." [...]

Mr Pratchett, who has sold more than 60 million books, has previously said he was "rather angry with God for not existing".

But in an interview with a Sunday newspaper, he said: "It is just possible that once you have got past all the gods that we have created with big beards and many human traits, just beyond all that, on the other side of physics, they just may be the ordered structure from which everything flows.

"That is both a kind of philosophy and totally useless - it doesn't take you anywhere. But it fills a hole."

...is that they're all so angry at God for leaving that God-shaped hole when they pretend He isn't there.

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Posted by Orrin Judd at June 8, 2008 10:15 AM