i definitely think i would have enjoyed life of pi more if i had just read parts one and two. basically the way the author approaches religion and atheism bothers me because his understanding is fundamentally different from mine. it especially irks me how he establishes that being an atheist requires a leap of faith. in fact, it is completely the opposite; as an atheist you simply look at what the facts are and nothing more.
what i feel the author doesn’t grasp is even without believing in a god you can believe in remarkable things. in the universe random chance is a large player, and the remarkable things that occur due to random chance are feasible because the infinite amount of possibilities that are ever present in the universe. though something may seem incredibly improbable, the sheer enormity that is the infinite universe makes the impossible, possible.
anyway, it was a good book in that it definitely made me think.
