“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually
no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody
worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. The compelling reason for choosing
God is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you
worship money you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the
truth. Worship beauty and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age
start showing, you’ll die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. Worship
power you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power
over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, you will end
up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the
insidious thing about these forms of worship is that they’re unconscious. They’re
default settings.” – David Foster Wallace
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