Quote #4, and associated thoughts on deity and Metaphor

"[God] made us clever enough to work out that He does not exist."
-Terry Pratchett, 'Nation'

I like this quote, and the previous one from García Márquez, because it sums up exactly how I think we should feel about God. We know he doesn't exist, but we can believe in him and allow him to help us. Another brilliant quote that is related is Jack White's incomprehension at people who feel clever because they're atheists: if you disbelieve in God on the grounds of logic or science (or anything else for that matter) then you are only losing out: "I have God and they don't". Why would you chose to give up God? To rationalise something like God is to eliminate the fabric of humanity: we operate according to the terms of truth-through-lies, of logical double-standards. We have the ability to apply logic when it comes to things like growing food and inventing machines, but reject it when it comes to nationality, "good" or God. Why should God be any different to justice, freedom or virtue? They are nothing more than inventions of deluded minds that are necessary to express things that we know to exist, but don't actually exist. We are the creatures of Metaphor, and it's a beautiful thing. If you don't use God to express all that God expresses, either you condemn yourself to an empty existence, or you will end up finding something which is virtually synonymous.