Not all fools are avowed atheists.
All serious foolishness begins with the assumption “There
is no God.” But there are different ways of denying the existence of
God in one’s heart. One way is to do it like Richard Dawkins, who says it with
a lot of pseudo-scientific bother and fuss. He can’t stop thinking about it and
trying to prove it. Then there is the functional atheist. He never tries to
talk anyone out of their belief in God, and he certainly doesn’t write books
about God’s non-existence. He may even concede that God might possibly exist,
but he lives every moment of his life as if God does not.
Either way is foolish, but at least a Dawkins recognizes the
existence of God as a problem for his worldview and is working away at coming
to grips with it. The other fellow is perhaps in a worse state, as he never
thinks about God at all.