In Spiritual Atheism, Steve Antinoff argues that the dilemma burning within the West has been given its most fundamental expression by Kirilov in Dostoyevsky's The Possessed: God is necessary, and so must exist...Yet I know that he doesn't exist, and can't exist...But don't you understand that a man with two such ideas cannot go on living?'. According to Antinoff, spiritual atheism begins with triple realisation: that the experience of the world leaves people dissatisfied, that this dissatisfaction is intolerable and that there is no God.'
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In Spiritual Atheism, Steve Antinoff argues that the dilemma burning within the West has been given its most fundamental expression by Kirilov in Dostoyevsky's The Possessed: God is necessary, and so must exist...Yet I know that he doesn't exist, and can't exist...But don't you understand that a man with two such ideas cannot go on living?'. According to Antinoff, spiritual atheism begins with triple realisation: that the experience of the world leaves people dissatisfied, that this dissatisfaction is intolerable and that there is no God.'