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. I think
Hazel has done better. Richard?" "Not anything I could get my teeth into.
Nothing that made sense. And-forgive me, Hilda-I found your story hard to
swallow."
"Of course, dear; I don't believe it myself. Except late at night. Jubal,
you had better take it."
Dr. Harshaw answered, "Very well. The World as Myth is a subtle concept. It
has sometimes been called multiperson solipsism, despite the internal illogic of
that phrase. Yet illogic may be necessary, as the concept denies logic. For many
centuries religion held sway as the explanation of the universe- or multiverse.
The details of revealed religions differed wildly but were essentially the same:
Somewhere up in the sky-or down in the earth-or in a volcano-any inaccessible
place- there was an old man in a nightshirt who knew everything and was all
powerful and created everything and rewarded and punished... and could be
bribed.
"Sometimes this Almighty was female but not often because human males are
usually bigger, stronger, and more belligerent; God was created in Pop's image.
"The Almighty-God idea came under attack because it explained nothing; it
simply pushed all explanations one stage farther away. In the nineteenth century
atheistic positivism started displacing the Almighty-God notion in that minority
of the population that bathed regularly.
"Atheism had a limited run, as it, too, explains nothing, being merely
Godism turned upside down
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