Simone Weil's weird take on religious belief

   Discussions about any "god" are fraught with uncertainties.  It has been compared to explaining the color green to a blind person.  There is no "literal" way to do that.  If you can see green at all then I can quite "literally" inform you that the leaves on some particular tree at some particular time are green.  Otherwise we are left with more poetic attempts at communication.  There might be less than perfect analogies available.  You might (!) be dissatisfied with the explanation, such as it is, that I can offer.

   I do not "expect," I already know that there are things beyond the plain sight and hearing of human eyes and ears.  There are things unknown.  We are left to speculate and perhaps on a good day surmise some of the details, but a full picture can be most difficult to obtain.

   Many "Christians" have a habit of assuming their certainty about those things is more justified than it actually is.  There are indeed certainties in science, but there are many things quite beyond such science to explain.  It is normal to be uncomfortable with uncertainty and many Christians choose not to face uncertainty or pretend to be more certain than they can justify.

   Atheists and fundamentalists are much alike that way.  Atheists often claim to know the age of the Earth with more certainty than fundamentalists, but they are all fooling themselves and no one else.  No one really knows exactly how old the Earth is.  I do not know exactly how old the Earth is and I do not "expect" any god to tell me any time soon.

   This is my point.  Atheists and fundamentalists are "plainspoken" in the perjorative sense of that term.  They are low ranking soldiers or "grunts" who believe they or their leaders know more than is actually the case.  They read at an elementary level and often misread it all.