Words of divine consciousness; moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a wuickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realisation tt the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nontheless ineluctably.

What of God's silence?

An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose.

I can well imagine an atheist's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!"- and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeasting factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying, "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain" and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.

3 prothets were arguing over a boy who was practicing 3 religions.
The imarn said earnestly. "Hindus and Christians are idolators. They have many gods."
"and muslims have many wives," responded the pandit
The priest looked askance at both of them, "the is salvation only in Jesus."
"Balderish! Christians know nothing about religion" Said the pandit
"They strayed from god's path" said the imam
"where is god in your religion?" Smapped the preist. "You dont have a single miracle to show for it. What kind of religion is that, without miracles?"
"It isnt a curcus with dead people jumping out of tombs all the time, that's what! We muslims stick to the essential miracle of existence. Birds flying, rain falling, crops growing- These are miracles enough for us.
"feathers and rain are all very nice bue we like to know that god is truely wiht us:
"Is that so? well a whole lot of good it did god to be with you- You tried to kill him! YOu banged him to a cross with great big nails. Is that a civilised way to treat a prophet? The prophet Muhammad-peace be upon him brought us the word 0of god without any undignified nonsence and died at a ripe old age"
"The word of God? To that illiterate merchant of yous in the middle of the desert? Those were drooling epileptic fits brought on by the swaying of this camel, not divine revelation. That or the sun frying his brains!
If the Prophet-p.b.u.h-were alive, he would have choice words for you! replied the imam with narrowed eyes
Well, he's not! christ is alive, while your old 'p.b.u.h' is dead, dead, dead!
The pandit interrrupted them quietly. In Tamil he said. "The real question is, why is Piscine dallying with these foreign religions?
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"Bapu gandhi said" all religions are true" I just want to love god" The boy blurted out.

Amusing. Y'ann Martel weaves magic. Pure, undistilled magic.

You may fancy these words as my own. Sincerest apologies for the unintended deception.