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In Count Tolstoy’s later years, he searched for the meaning of his life, and to find the answer to life’s questions. For someone who had everything in life - fame, fortune, family, freedom - he wanted more; he wanted to know why. He studied all the sciences and philosophy, as well as the great religions of the world. He consulted the greatest teachers, scientists, philosophers and theologians, but he could find none to give any answer to the simple question of existence. All that anyone could tell him was that man and the universe exists, but that there was no explanation for it. No matter how he posed the question, it all came back to the point that life was meaningless; and he knew no more than he knew before. Then, in the end, he ceased to doubt, and took solace in the truth about man’s false beliefs. See Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings (1879-82).
In 1901, Tolstoy was excommunicated from the church by the Russian Synod and placed on a watch list of subversives by the Czar's government.
Have any of you read The Portable Atheist by C. Hitchens. I think it followed his book God is not Great which I liked a lot. It might be a good book for the reading group. I just got it, and will and will let you know what I think after I finish it.
While looking through the religious texts for the Rig Vedas at Barnes & Noble a few months ago, I ran across The Atheist Bible. Lots of quotes from atheists and the like. Many are amusing.
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