I can't begin to tell you how arrogant it is for someone who perpetuates an invented god to then insist that not believing in it is the real intellectual failure. In a universe as vast as the one we perceive, it is far more likely that we would not know something than know it. Clearly, those who thought Venus was a dot on the celestial ceiling also knew the eternal secrets of the divine (this week on Geraldo!).
Hard pass
I can't begin to tell you how arrogant it is for someone who perpetuates an invented god to then insist that not believing in it is the real intellectual failure. In a universe as vast as the one we perceive, it is far more likely that we would not know something than know it. Clearly, those who thought Venus was a dot on the celestial ceiling also knew the eternal secrets of the divine (this week on Geraldo!).
Conversely, does an ephemeral (in the sense of the universe) religion convey a universe of meaning?
How about for both, "only if you want it to."
That little silly-gism probably made perfect sense to him.