Are You a Closeted Atheist, or an Open Atheist? I mean, do you fake it sometimes?

[NNadir]

56. I think that we don't proselytise with our atheism because we are not...

...in the position of having to defend a belief in the absurd.

I was always amused by the report I read somewhere about the early Roman Christian writer Tertullian, who is said to remarked, "I believe because it's absurd."

That strikes me as precisely the reason to reject the whole business.

Similarly the argument in "intelligent design" is a bit of human hubris, since there is no evidence that any human has ever put together a universe with galaxies stretching as far as can be seen.

I am fine with stating that the Universe has a quality that is ineffable, but by definition that means no quality of it's existence can possibly hold water, certainly one with an assumed anthropomorphic consciousness.

I don't think that sheep herders on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea really had insight to anything quite so profound as say, the existence of atoms, quantum mechanics, or relativity.