The Nation | Essay | On Sartre's God Problem | Norman Mailer

The Nation | Essay | On Sartre's God Problem | Norman Mailer:

"Sartre, however, was comfortable as an atheist even if he had no fundament on which to plant his philosophical feet. To hell with that, he didn't need it. He was ready to survive in mid-air. We are French, he was ready to say. We have minds, we can live with the absurd and ask for no reward. That is because we are noble enough to live with emptiness, and strong enough to choose a course which we are even ready to die for. And we will do this in whole defiance of the fact that, indeed, we have no footing. We do not look to a Hereafter. "

and I'm gonna have to stand with Sartre...
on thin air.

although, the God Mailer posits here is much more interesting and useful than most...
after I think about this and digest it I may post more on it...
but I might not...
either way it's a good read and something to think about.