...And everyone was surprised?

I don't know if there IS a god
I just question the NEED for one.

Roman Tombstone:

Do not pass by my epitaph, traveler.
But having stopped, listen and learn, then go your way.
There is no boat in Hades, no ferryman Charon,
No caretaker Aiakos, no dog Cerberus.
All we who are dead below
Have become bones and ashes, but nothing else.
I have spoken to you honestly, go on, traveler,
Lest even while dead I seem loquacious to you.

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."
Wilson Mizner
US screenwriter (1876 - 1933)

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