… Joseph Epstein: Opinion | Pious Agnosticism as a Form of Judaism. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
After all the worst has been said against religion, one can’t deny the comfort it has brought. I had a neighbor, a woman 10 or so years older than I, unmarried, a former schoolteacher, a serious Catholic, who told me she wasn’t in the least afraid of death. She wished to avoid a painful or sloppy end, but death itself held no fears for her, for she had a good sense of where she was going. As she told me this, I can recall feeling a stab of what I can only call faith envy.
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