Or remain a bitter communist?
I find it interesting that he says this crap about pushing religion. Anybody who thinks atheists live by logic can just consider Rooney’s point here.
If you’re an atheist, you believe that if I die an atheist, my mind will cease to exist and my body will rot under six feet of dirt. And if I die as a born-again Christian, my mind will cease to exist and my body will rot under six feet of dirt. Why would you bother trying to convert me?
However, if I’m a Christian I believe that the atheist who becomes a born-again Christian will spend eternity in a place so wnderful the current human mind can’t describe it, and the atheist who doesn’t will experience torment forever. And this guy “resents” people trying to warn him about that?
If I saw a neighbor putting the lightweight motor oil in his engine before a thousand mile road trip and knew his engine would blow up and didn’t tell him, Rooney would think I was acruel jerk and an example of how (as he once wrote) religion doesn’t make people any nicer to each other. Yet if someone told him he was headed for something infinitly worse than a blown engine, he resented it. Foolish.