Barbara Ehrenreich quote: The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility of ...

The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility of a nonhuman agent or agents, some mysterious Other, intervening in my life, could I still call myself an atheist?

~ Barbara Ehrenreich ~

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