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Not too surprised. Does he give Milton or the Bible as influences?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/18/2014 7:49 PM, Nicholas Carter
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><font size="3"><font face="Arial">I</font><font face="Arial"> have one question to start: is Mitchell Catholic?</font></font></i></pre>
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Arial" size="3">From a Mitchell interview:</font></pre>
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><p style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Arial" size="3">Q: Faith plays an important role in your books, what's your own attitude towards religion?</font></b></p><p style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial" size="3">A: I am a kind of secular Buddhist. I meditate and find it very helpful, and Buddhism doesn't ask me to sacrifice my rationality or my common sense, it doesn't ask me to believe the impossib
le. I find it helpful to keep my mind under control, sane and calm. What happens after we die — I don't know, and I'm happy not to know. I feel I have no choice but to not know. Buddhism doesn't care if I don't accept its cosmology, I don't have to believe it all.</font></p><p style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial" size="3">
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