Excerpt: Writings from the Second Closet

"For as long as I can remember, I always had a feeling of connectedness, both to nature, and to all people. It was a sense of well-being, a sense of peace. This feeling made it very easy for me to imagine that there was an "all-father" watching over the world, and me personally."

"At about this time, reception of the instructions for physiological modifications were complete. A new verb, meaning the use of the new organs, came with them: 'see'. Oon and Trumm activated theirs together. They were rewarded with vision in shades of light and dark..."

"The one thing I thought I had to lose was this deep and profound feeling of a connectedness to the world and to humanity....By becoming a non-believer, I worried I was going to lose something special that, all my life, I'd been told was granted by a god."

"Mother Teresa was yet another closet atheist, working in a community of theists...."

"Dr. Karenga is an outspoken opponent of what he calls "Spookism". Spookism is any belief in invisible beings who threaten us if we don't worship them. Dr. Karenga is also an atheist, one who saw the need for a different kind of Winter solstice observance."

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