Sublime

The disconcerting thing about us is that we can consider the same facts, the same realities, and come to diametrically opposed interpretations of their meaning. We can even reach different conclusions from reading the same science.

Good should be done for its own sake and not because it is commanded by some version of religion’s God, especially since we know how often in the past religion’s God has been used for evil purposes.

They read it not as a story that carried a universal human meaning but, in Nietzsche’s words, as a ‘historical reality’.