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Poetry as religion

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Are You Going to Ask Why I'm an Agnostic?

"I don't have any faith in one of my fellow mammals as some kind of exclusive vehicle for communicating what that God wants me to do or who I should be naked with," he says. "How can I stand in front of this great being and be satisfied that babies suffer and die for nothing?" The idea that some being could reconcile all this suffering is offensive, the poet adds.

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