What are your thoughts and reactions to Crane’s revelations about nature and god

What are your thoughts and reactions to Crane’s revelations about nature and god? Even if you disagree with the ideas expressed here, do they seem true to life? can you imagine others thinking that way? What experience do you have with storytelling, as a teller or a listener? Does Anderson’s narrator seem, again, true?
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