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https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1-ghXrKZq9untiKYLPPnydxw.jpeg1400753The reason people choose atheism rather than belief or agnosticism, may simply be that professed atheists have not experienced, at least in this lifetime, the “numen” (adj. “numinous”). See meaning below. The terms were popularized by the German theologian Rudolf Otto in his influential 1917 German book Das Heilige, which appeared in English as The […]