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God if nothing else is something that makes us aware of how much we have in life, and how little.

But religion's a strange thing dealing with strange materials that have little or nothing to do with god.

Kierkegaard, a new, improved kind of Christian, believed god came to each of us mysteriously. He attended the School of Civic Virtue in Copenhagen until he was 17 years old.

God or no god, religion or no religion, goodness is complex, hard-wired to the soul by networks of phantasmaghorical ganglia much too fine for a doctor to see.

Poets sometimes get in there and take a look around. They're heroic and write in hexameter.

You can't trust the poets though. They're liable to tell you Angela Merkel is the reincarnation of Helen of Troy and that she has a heart.