The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.
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Works of art are my objects of worship. They are often more real than we are because they embody human consciousness completely fulfilled.
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