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Related: About this forumW.P. Kinsella rejected religion, academics and afterlife
W.P Kinsella was not a warm, romantic spiritual dreamer, like his characters. He was a complicated, aloof, cynical, irreverent, contradictory atheist. In other words, kind of interesting. He died this week. AP / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DOUGLAS TODD
Published on: September 17, 2016 | Last Updated: September 17, 2016 12:39 PM PDT
UPDATE Sept. 17, 2016: W.P. Kinsella, the author of Shoeless Joe, has had an assisted death in Hope, B.C. He was 81.
Here is a profile I wrote of him in 1994. He later denounced me in Vancouver Magazine. But, truly, I was just reflecting how he was in the interview.
For instance, when I asked if he thought there was an afterlife, since his fictional characters seemed to have them, he thought I was kidding.
Its just the same as when you squish an ant on the sidewalk. No one thinks ants go to ant heaven, he said.
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W.P. Kinsella rejected religion, academics and afterlife (Original Post)
rug
Sep 2016
OP
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)1. I stopped worrying about being an atheist
when god told me all atheists go to heaven. So now I'm very comfortable with my atheism.
rug
(82,333 posts)2. The Pope agrees with you.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)3. If he didn't agree with me, then he'd be wrong. n/t
True Dough
(17,338 posts)4. The man defied the Bible
and the conventions of fashion.
RIP!