A happy atheist- by which I mean an atheist confident in their unbelief- wouldn't continually be banging on about God the way Dawkins and Hitchens and Pullman do, they'd just let the matter rest and get on with their cheerfully Godless life, wouldn't they?
I don't think that's fair.
I spent a lot of time arguing religion a few years ago, but it wasn't because I was unsure in my unbelief. It was because I enjoyed arguing about the subject. That eventually got boring, but I hadn't made a career out of it; I was just being opinionated online.
This reminds me too much of the old argument that the loudest homophobes are secretly homosexual. While it's an attractive idea, it's probably not true of many of them.
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Date: 2010-03-30 11:10 pm (UTC)I don't think that's fair.
I spent a lot of time arguing religion a few years ago, but it wasn't because I was unsure in my unbelief. It was because I enjoyed arguing about the subject. That eventually got boring, but I hadn't made a career out of it; I was just being opinionated online.
This reminds me too much of the old argument that the loudest homophobes are secretly homosexual. While it's an attractive idea, it's probably not true of many of them.