As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-can´t-help-it.

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.