Agnosticism

[consrvtve_rebel]

"You know, dear boy, there was an old sinner in the eighteenth century who declared that, if there was no God, he would have to be invented. [...] And man has actually invented God. And what's strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the

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[hapte_phobia]

Well. Welcome back? I've seen that quote, "if there was no God, he would have to be invented" a lot. It's always interested me. I don't know if it's so strange a concept, though; people like having something to live by, for.

And what translation is this from? The one I tried to get through (note: tried) was really, really . . . well, not so well done.