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 And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, "Kurt is up in heaven now." That's my favorite joke. |
From the AHA Humanist News - April 12, 2007:
Humanist President Kurt Vonnegut Mourned
Kurt Vonnegut, who died Wednesday night in New York at age 84, was the honorary president of the American Humanist Association. "I am a humanist," he wrote in a letter to the organization's members, "which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead."
Roy Speckhardt, the Executive Director of the American Humanist Association, said, "Vonnegut's sarcasm was so thick that those less familiar with him had trouble seeing through to his pointed commentary on the state of the world."
One example of his sarcasm had some "intelligent design" supporters quoting Vonnegut for saying:
I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.
Of course, Vonnegut was completely secular in his outlook and enjoyed taking jabs at those who would skirt the teaching of evolution by promoting so-called intelligent design.
In his 2005 book, A Man Without a Country he made a special request:
And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, "Kurt is up in heaven now." That's my favorite joke. |
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Vonnegut grew up in a family of German-American freethinkers and throughout his life held to a philosophical view that, from a cosmic perspective, existence is meaningless but this is redeemed by human kindness or, as he sometimes said, "the few saintly people among us." This outlook was summed up in his 1965 novel, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater when he had his title character say:
"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies--'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'"
In 1992 Kurt Vonnegut received the Humanist of the Year award from the American Humanist Association. His acceptance speech, later published in the Humanist, was entitled "Why My Dog Is Not a Humanist" and is available online at http://www.americanhumanist.org/KVSpeech.php.
Speckhardt concluded: "By those who knew him, Kurt will be remembered for his direct personal approach; he will also be remembered for his acerbic wit and humor and his unflagging support for humanist concerns." And so it goes.
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