To Try To Fashion Something From Suffering,

It Is Widely Assumed, Contrary To Fact, That Theism Necessarily Involves The Two Assumptions Which Cannot Be Squared With The Existence Of So Much Suffering, And That Therefore, Per Impossibile, They Simply Have To Be Squared With The Existence Of All This Suffering, Somehow.

For Atheism And Polytheism There Is No Special Problem Of Suffering, Nor Need There Be For Every Kind Of Monotheism.

Philosophy Means Liberation From The - Routine, Soaring Above The Well Known, Seeing It In New Perspectives, Arousing Wonder And The Wish To Fly.

The Only Theism Worthy Of Our Respect Believes In God Not Because Of The Way The World Is Made But In Spite Of That. The Only Theism That Is No Less Profound Than The Buddha's Atheism Is That Represented In The Bible By Job And Jeremiah.

There Is Thus A Certain Plausibility To Nietzsche's Doctrine, Though It Is Dynamite. He Maintains In Effect That The Gulf Separating Plato From The Average Man Is Greater Than The Cleft Between The Average Man And A Chimpanzee.