John Updike Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?

  John Updike

  Atheist, Humanity, Intellectual

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.141, Random House

• The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

  John Updike

  Reality, Self, Guarantees That

  John Updike (1989). “Self-consciousness: memoirs”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

• Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

  John Updike

  Atheist, Intellectual, Atheism

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.138, Random House

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