“All personal gods are idolatrous, especially any personal god we dignify with a capital G. The great service to humanity of science has been to sweep the anthropomorphic gods away or, at the very least, to show them for what they are, phantoms of the human brain. What we are given in their place is not Truth, but reliable empirical knowledge of the world, tentative and evolving. To be sure, science does not exhaust reality, or even begin to encompass the complexity of our interaction with the world. The religious naturalist seeks a language of spirituality that is consistent with the empirical way of knowing.”
— Chet Raymo, When God Is Gone, Everything Is Holy: The Making of a Religious Naturalist
(Notre Dame: Sorin Books, 2008) p.125.
(Notre Dame: Sorin Books, 2008) p.125.
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