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Today, April 16, is the one day in the year when I allow myself to co-opt this blog for very personal purposes. Usually I use this time as a way to remember Virginia Tech, and my time there. Today, however, I want to be a little more audacious. Forgive me, I want to talk about God and godlessness. The theme and the day have something of a connection, of course. But, as before, I will steadfastly refuse to make it. If you’re here for physics-related content, I apologize; a new post should be up within a couple days. My childhood was a very religious one. I mean this not just in the sense that I spent a lot of time in church (which I did), or that religious doctrines played an outsized role in shaping and constraining the events of my life (which they did), but in the sense that religion felt very important to me. From a very early age, the religious ideas to which I was exposed felt intensely valuable and deeply moving. I was a Christian (a Mormon, in fact), and the doctrines of Chr

On Godlessness | Gravity and Levity Skip to content Gravity and Levity A blog about the big ideas in physics, plus a few other things Home Archive On Gravity and Levity On Godlessness April 16, 2015 tags: godlessness , Virginia Tech by Brian Today, April 16, is the one day in the year when I allow myself to co-opt this blog for very personal purposes. Usually I use this time as a way to remember Virginia Tech , and my time there . Today, however, I want to be a little more audacious. Forgive me, I want to talk about God and godlessness. The theme and the day have something of a connection, of

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