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Martin Amis on Atheism

1949–2023 England

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Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

[I am] secular to the bones, but not an atheist.

I gave a school speech in which I rejected all belief as an affront to common sense. I was an atheist, and I was 12: it seemed open-and-shut.

The voice of the lonely crowd (2002)

I say that I am an agnostic. People think that's pusillanimous and covering your bets. But it's not based on any belief or yearning for an afterlife but on the fact that we actually know so little about the cosmos. It is a tribute to the complexity and, at our present stage of development, the unknowability of the universe.

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