If by ‘God’ you have something definite in mind – a being that is loving, or jealous, or whatever – then you’re faced with the question of why God’s that way and not another way. And if you don’t have anything very definite in mind when you talk about ‘God’ being behind the existence of the universe, then why even use the word? So I think religion doesn’t help. It’s part of the human tragedy: we’re faced with a mystery we can’t understand – Steven Weinberg.
-Jim Holt
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