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明けましておめでとうございます、が。
この お正月は、キリスト暦の New Year。
和暦（東洋太陰暦）の正月春節は、
新暦２月19日。 皇紀２６７５年であります。
来年(今年)もだうぞよろしく。

さて、
英語版ハフィントン・ポストでみかけた 最近の記事。その冒頭部分。


After A Year Without God, Former Pastor Ryan Bell No Longer Believes

Chris Stedman

Religion News Service 01/04/15 08:20 AM ET

(RNS) Ryan Bell : the former Seventh-day Adventist pastor who spent 2014 living as an atheist is ready for his big reveal.


After chronicling the last 12 months on his blog Year Without God, Bell
who now works as director of community engagement at People Assisting the Homeless in Southern California announced in an interview with NPR that he no longer believes in God.


Bell talked with Religion News Service about his decision and what it will mean to him and his loved ones. Some answers have been edited for length and clarity.

Q: This weekend you told NPR: “I don’t think that God exists.” Can you elaborate?
A: I think the best way I can explain the conclusion I’ve come to and conclusion is too strong a word for the provisional place I now stand and work from is that the intellectual and emotional energy it takes to figure out how God fits into everything is far greater than dealing with reality as it presents itself to us.


That probably sounds very nonrational, and I want people to know that I have read several dozen books and understand a good many of the arguments. I’d just say that the existence of God seems like an extra layer of complexity that isn’t necessary. The world makes more sense to me as it is, without postulating a divine being who is somehow in charge of things.