Oh, absolutely. I’d only been an atheist for about a month when you posted Explaining vs. Explaining Away, and I can’t tell you what a relief it was to feel that yes, it was going to be alright.
I was quoting “Bad scientist! No poems for you, gnomekiller!” for days after that =)
My religious friends didn’t find it as funny though, if I recall. I worry that maybe there’s still an activation energy left to deal with—that the comfort of joy in the merely real doesn’t start to become attractive until you’ve already confronted, to some extent, the fact of atheism.
Oh, absolutely. I’d only been an atheist for about a month when you posted Explaining vs. Explaining Away, and I can’t tell you what a relief it was to feel that yes, it was going to be alright.
I was quoting “Bad scientist! No poems for you, gnomekiller!” for days after that =)
My religious friends didn’t find it as funny though, if I recall. I worry that maybe there’s still an activation energy left to deal with—that the comfort of joy in the merely real doesn’t start to become attractive until you’ve already confronted, to some extent, the fact of atheism.