Ask Lemmy

I’m not proud of it, but in distress I did call to god for help

Doesn't sound like the actions of a "strong atheist" (if such a thing can or should even exist) to me... just sounds like bog-standard human behavior.

But hey, I was 11 years old

But you've left all of that behind, right? You're a big, strong, rational main character now that will never be put into such a vulnerable situation ever again, right?

None of that is belief,

Perhaps it is and perhaps it isn't - and that probably isn't even relevant.

as soon as peoole regain their senses, they discard it.

When I cease to be hungry I stop eating - that doesn't mean I reject the concept of food.

Just like wounded soldiers on a battlefield don’t actually expect their mothers to show up and safe them, yet still call out to them.

In other words... atheist reasoning only works as long as everything is comfortable and non-threatening? It offers absolutely nothing to those in distress?

I'd say that's a big, gaping hole in said reasoning.

Belief needs conviction

So does non-belief, apparently. At least, that's what the narratives I hear from atheists seem to suggest.