Faith and deconstruction

So why believe anything? After all it is just a delusion, right? A psychological trick, a way of coping if we put anything outside of ourselves in this world. Anything, that is, other than the things which we create.

After all, by the time we get to the level of deconstruction which is required for literal non-belief we have left a lot of things behind. We must have left our nurturing faith, the beliefs of those who held us - even if they too were non-believers the sort of relativism required simply to acquire atheism by some sort of vague attachment does not seem quite coherent with its tenets of removal. Just acquiring no God does not seem to need the removal of a God.

But then, perhaps such removal is not, after all necessary. Perhaps there is such a place as atheism without deconstruction, rather like Christianity without conversion. Or perhaps not.

I wonder, too, whether all those things we push aside as we remove divine being from our language and being are the same sorts of things which we push aside when we invite in divine being they the exact opposite. When we remove divinity do we invite self-will. When we invite divinity we certainly want to remove self will. What is the same and what is different is something to think about.