One of Peter’s main points of disagreement with Christopher is the latter’s assertion, in the opening chapter of God Is Not Great, that ‘Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith.’ On the contrary, writes Peter, the ‘new anti-theism is… a dogmatic tyranny in the making.’ Atheists ‘cannot admit that their... insistence that there is no God is in fact a faith’. He has elsewhere summarised the atheist position as ‘There is no God, and I hate him.’
Both theism and atheism are faiths, quite simply because one cannot prove or disprove whether or not God exists (actually, if there is a God, he doesn't exist; he simply is). One can have reasons for choosing one position or the other. But either way, faith is an adventure, not an axiom. Of course, when I die, if I turns out I was wrong and there is no God, I will never know that I was wrong. Were I atheist, when I died, if it turned out I was wrong, I would know.
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