What about us freelancing atheistic, polytheistic, pantheists? What do we do about faith?
I have never considered the issue until recently, but I realized I was missing out. Faith always seemed faintly ridiculous, with its sanctimonious airs and, well, fundamental inaccuracy. Why have faith in something that doesn't exactly, I don't know, exist?
And certainly not like that.
I mean, seriously.
But today, after seeing the reference to a biblical quote in an ugly tattoo on the calf of a young man in the library, I realized maybe the faith is the thing, not what one has faith in.
I'm just saying that after decades of faithless suspicions, it all seemed so restful.
There is nothing out there, or there are capricious spirits, perhaps there is a world of trouble, but I have faith.
What do I have faith in?
I don't know, nothing? But I trust it.
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