Because they aren’t athiests. I firmly believe there are no athiests. The more they talk, the more you talk to them, the more you actually find out they really hate God, versus not believing in him. Believe me, I’ve had some conversations.
Indeed.
My PhD research included atheists and agnostics as well as intense Christian groups.
I was shocked one day to receive the leading ATHEIST journal and on reading it
to be brazenly confronted with the fact that
substituting a few key words and phrases in not that many places . . .
it would have read 100% like a Pentecostal journal.
I was truly shocked.
Many times . . . like a horse-shoe . . . the extremes aremore similar than either extreme is to the middle.
Reminds me of the lukewarm warning in Scripture.
Better to be hot or cold.