Existence of god Quote by Martin Amis

““One recalls John Updike’s argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be so.””

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For me the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.

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The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

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