I know I quoted him earlier this year. Found my notes on the book. Here are some more juicy bits:
If God is supposed to give our lives a meaning that we can't understand, it's not much of a consolation.
The idea of God seems to be the idea of something that can explain everything else, without having to be explained itself.
If God and his purposes are offered as the ultimate explanation of the value and meaning of our lives, that precludes asking 'What's the point of God.'
If live is meaningless there is no point. It wouldn't mater if I didn't exist at all, or if I didn't care about anything. But I do. That's all there is to it. Resisting this is a compulsion to take ourselves too seriously. We want to matter to ourselves from 'the outside'. (this is the impetus for many ambitions)
If we can't help taking ourselves so seriously perhaps we just have to put up with being ridiculous. Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
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