Quote:They believe in God but they hate him obscenely.
I can't help but think that people that say things such as this have created their own image of atheists as a defense mechanism against the fact that other people are justified in not believing in their god. It hurts to think that god might not be real, so everyone actually believes in him!
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
