Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.
To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.
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