Jerusalem Versus Athens Revisited

Abstract

God is a prototypical social fact. It exists the way all other social facts exist, if one believes Émile Durkheim: cannot be removed (or, for that matter, inserted) by the sheer effort of mind, wished away (or in) or argued away (or in), God exists through imposing itself and cropping up uninvited and un-summoned—winking from every blank spot, every non sequitur in the chain of explanations and train of comprehension, and squeezing itself into every gap in the sequence of acts separating desire from fulfilment and expectation from things as they are staunchly, refusing to budge. God will exist as long as does human existential uncertainty, and that means forever. Or rather God will die together with human species and not a second earlier.