Irving Finkel: belief

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…So yeah, the knowledge that it ends is the painful thing, not the actual moment of the ending. Yeah. Many times what makes moments really precious is that they’re going to be gone. I think that’s not a trivial thing for us humans to really contend with. I think religion, religious thought, the divine, I think help with that. I think the big mistake for mankind was the creation of monotheistic religions, because they brought evil into the world. Because if you believe in a monotheistic religion, that means I’m right and you’re wrong if you don’t. So it’s already on that footing. It’s very dogmatic. Yeah.…

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