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June 16, 2004
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
I'm slowly working my way through the novel and this passage really jumped out at me:
I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.The italics are *my* emphasis, not Yann Martel's (the author).
I stayed up way too late reading The Life of Pi. Once the story moved beyond Pi's religious exploration, it did indeed pick up. I think I preferred the exploration part, though the rest of the story is pretty absorbing as well.
Posted by katester at 12:31 PM