29) If my reason is informed by the coarse energy of emotional reaction, as opposed to the more refined energy of a feeling of genuine quality, then no matter how clever, how coherent, how convincing my reason may seem it can never truly be described as Objective Reason.
30) The current dialogue between atheists and believers is full of dreary and mechanical emotional reaction. By and large, the atheist is reacting to what he perceives as irrational and the believer is reacting to an assault on something he has a sentimental attachment to. Neither reaction is conscious in the true sense of the word.
31) It matters not whether it comes from atheism or religious fervour, the energy of contempt and hostility will always be destructive, lead nowhere and achieve nothing.
32) Life feeds on death and cannot survive without it, a fact too easily ignored nowadays.