Det finns något i vissa ateisters upptagenhet med Gud och att kritisera religionen som tyder på att förhållandet till Gud inte är så allderles enkelt. Upptagenheten med ämnet tyder på en hatkärlek. Ateisten längtar i hemlighet efter Gud. Två kolumnister hr reflekterat över detta tema på sista tiden.
"Det är häpnadsväckande hur många insändarförfattare under senare år som väntar frälsning från vetenskapen, och som helst skulle vilja förbjuda religion i alla former, i varje fall om den tar sig offentliga uttryck. Det finns något som lockar och drar. Det uppfattas som riskabelt. Som Jesus sade: När jag har blivit upphöjd från jorden skall jag dra alla till mig."
Mats Tunehag, journalist på Världen Idag bloggar på engelska. Han har uppmärksammat en artikel i the Guardian av Charlotte Allen som skriver om ateisternas tråkighet:
"I can't stand atheists – but it's not because they don't believe in God. It's because they're crashing bores”, wrote Charlotte Allen in the Guardian May 29. Excerpts:
“My problem with atheists is their tiresome – and way old – insistence that they are being oppressed and their fixation with the fine points of Christianity...
Maybe atheists wouldn't be so unpopular if they stopped beating the drum until the hide splits on their second-favourite topic: How stupid people are who believe in God. This is a favourite Richard Dawkins theme. He describes religious believers as follows: "They feel uneducated, which they are; often rather stupid, which they are; inferior, which they are; and paranoid about pointy-headed intellectuals from the East Coast looking down on them, which, with some justification, they do." Thanks, Richard!
And then there's the question of why atheists are so intent on trying to prove that God not only doesn't exist but is evil to boot. If there is no God – and you'd be way beyond stupid to think differently – why does it matter whether he's good or evil?...
What primarily seems to motivate atheists isn't rationalism but anger – anger that the world isn't perfect, that someone forced them to go to church as children, that the Bible contains apparent contradictions, that human beings can be hypocrites and commit crimes in the name of faith. What atheists don't seem to realise is that even for believers, faith is never easy in this world of injustice, pain and delusion. Even for believers, God exists just beyond the scrim of the senses. So, atheists, how about losing the tired sarcasm and boring self-pity and engaging believers seriously?”
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