/lit/ - Literature

I think I've realized something.

Is it possible that atheism is more prevalent in modern cities because of a lack of exposure to the natural world?
My relationship with God is informed quite a bit through my interaction with nature. My faith is, of course, first and foremost informed by the good book, but I fail to see how someone who may not be a reader could go out into the natural world and surmise that all of her beauty and perfection was simply an accident.

I think Emerson was really onto something.