I'm probably nearer to "a/theist", but I enjoyed it too.
Schoolfriend of mine used to alter the words of the hymns we had to sing in
chapel to make them derisive, or statements of vehement unbelief. I didn't
grok the vehemence. I would have understood protesting against the fact that
we had to be there, but he seemed to be protesting against something else
again. I would say - speaking for him, of course, and perhaps he would say
otherwise - he had, after all, an image of god in mind, and what he objected
to was anybody *worshipping* anything as monstrous as that god would have
had to be. A daily ritual of blasphemy, denial, curses and imprecations
hurled at the mad, blind, senile, sadistic Nobodaddy would have suited him
just fine. And whatever that is (Dennis Potter would have understood it),
it's not atheism.
Dom
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