re: #49 calochortus

Back before I became an atheist, I was confused by the very same thing. I struggled with a relationship with ‘god’, and it was a passionate and enthralling thing. I didn’t get how it could be just a dull, dull thing. For some of them, I think they’ve never experienced that thrill, that soul-knotting twist of actually engaging with spirituality. I think they’re more atheistic than atheists; they believe in ritual, but they don’t really believe in a god, not a god that really moves them, at any rate.

Chesterton put it well in the Ball and the Cross.