Dylan Evans (good Welsh name!) in the Guardian:
Atheists who attack religions for painting a false picture of the world are as unsophisticated and immature as religious believers, who mistake the picture for reality. The only mature attitude to religion is to see it for what it is - a kind of art, which only a child could mistake for reality, and which only a child would reject for being false.
I have one piece of practical advice for atheists: In the Midwest if they ask what religion you are, say "lapsed Quaker". It's the passive aggressive Midwestern way of saying atheist.
Posted by robe0419 at May 13, 2005 12:16 PM