In another interview she says “Carl felt this way and we learned this together— the impulse to find something sacred… there’s nothing foolish about that or necessarily reactionary about that. It’s the supernatural aspect that is corrosive…And so, yes, informed worship— but not worshipping some primate projection, some alpha in the sky, no” (Ann Druyan, transcript of an interview with Point of Inquiry. She sagely recommends that language about ‘worship’ and ‘spirituality’ be reclaimed from fundamentalists and irrationality rather than surrendered or jettisoned.
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