Quote Originally Posted by normbal View Post
to paraphrase (I don't have the quote on hand verbatim):

"You are inextricably bound to anything upon which you have a strong opinion." Robert Heinlein.

It's a maxim I think explains why atheists are so militant in their disbelief. It's about the "God-shaped hole" the french mathematician Blaise Pascal described so well.

Atheists spend a lot of time and energy circling that hole and screaming at others to ignore it.
Atheists spend most of their energy on self defense, not a lot of time to go on the attack.