Why I am Not an Atheist: Better Apathetic Godlessness than Illiberal Scientism

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39. Insofar as Mr Wells shares some of my views, I consider him a wise man,

with a developed capacity for deep and profound thought

And for this reason, I was most especially impressed by such remarks of his as:

I don't see why I should care about the non-existence of gods (to which I would add only, Exactly!);

from the perspective of freedom of religion jurisprudence, New Atheism would seem to have the same significance and deserve protection for the same reasons as any other religion (to which I say, Hear! Hear!);

There is no more need to meet the religious sceptical challenge - how can you prove there is no god? - than there is to meet the sceptical challenge of proving that you're not a brain in a vat imagining an external world (to which I should exclaim, Doh!); or

Science cannot actually refute the supernatural claims of religion because those claims are beyond its remit (to which I can only sigh, Thank you!)