The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility — Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
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The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility of a nonhuman agent or agents, some mysterious Other, intervening in my life, could I still call myself an atheist?

— Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
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