Norman Mailer on God


	Norman Mailer on God

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11-17-2007 2:53 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2986a31c-b082-46ed-9cac-ebece9de6a49/2816DB6C-8C06-458D-9CFB-30C7E91851C2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article2882692.ece" href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article2882692.ece" style="font-size: 11px;">entertainment.timesonline.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article2882692.ece"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/img/AA14DBFA-6630-4FAA-9C07-2B1547444C83" alt="Norman Mailer in his Provincetown home." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article2882692.ece">
I HAVE SPENT THE LAST 50 years trying to contemplate the nature of God. If I
speak specifically of 50 years, it is because my pride in the initial 30-odd
years of my life was to be an atheist — how much more difficult and
honorable I then considered that to be, rather than having a belief in an
All-Mighty divinity. I was a novelist, after all, so I was intensely, even
professionally, aware of the variety, and complexity, of human motivation
and its offspring-morality. It took a good number of years to recognise that
I did believe in God — that is, believed there is a divine presence in
existence</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article2882692.ece">Whenever I
tried to advance my notions by readings in theology, I was repelled</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article2882692.ece"><P>They were undernourished in their appetite for
inquiry, and full of ideological dicta.
</P><P></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article2882692.ece">God, as I could visualise such a being, was an Artist, not a
lawgiver, a mighty source of creative energy, an embattled moralist, a
celestial general engaged in a war, but never a divinity who was All-Good
and All-Powerful.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2816DB6C-8C06-458D-9CFB-30C7E91851C2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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