It isn't just that I don't believe in God... It's that I hope there…

It isn't just that I don't believe in God... It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

Thomas Nagel

1997

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Belief in God Existence of God

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Philosophical literature

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1997

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Thomas Nagel

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Nagel, Thomas. The Last Word. Oxford University Press, 1997, ch. 7.

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