W.P. Kinsella rejected religion, academics and afterlife

[rug]

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.

”It’s just the same as when you squish an ant on the sidewalk. No one thinks ants go to ant heaven,” he said.

http://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/w-p-kinsella-rejected-religion-academics-and-afterlife

[Binkie The Clown]

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]

2. The Pope agrees with you.

http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2015/12/pope_francis_offers_hope_to_fa.html

[Binkie The Clown]

3. If he didn't agree with me, then he'd be wrong. n/t

[True Dough]

4. The man defied the Bible

and the conventions of fashion.

RIP!