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No Satisfying Alternative to Religion? Try Reality.

Richard Dawkins · 23 Apr 2025

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The remedy for loneliness is human company, not talking to an imaginary god

Their wordsBut the remedy for loneliness is human fellowship, the warmth of real, live, flesh-and-blood companions and loved-ones; not prating in a vacuum to an imaginary friend for whose existence there is no vestige of serious evidence.

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  1. Our reading

    The remedy for loneliness is human company, not talking to an imaginary god

    Their wordsBut the remedy for loneliness is human fellowship, the warmth of real, live, flesh-and-blood companions and loved-ones; not prating in a vacuum to an imaginary friend for whose existence there is no vestige of serious evidence.

  2. Our reading

    Understanding the world brings a joy close to ecstasy

    Their wordsThere is joy in understanding, true joy, rising to little short of ecstasy. I suppose you could call it the poetry of reality.

  3. Our reading

    Being alive at all is enormous luck, to be revelled in rather than complained about

    Their wordsYou are prodigiously lucky to be alive. So please stifle your entitled moaning. Revel in your own existence.

  4. Our reading

    Reality makes gods and New Age spirituality unnecessary

    Their wordsWho needs New Age spirituality (“sound baths”, “energy healing”, “astrology”),who needs to thumb-suck under a mental comfort blanket, who needs gods, when reality is there for the taking?

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