WHY ATHEISTS SHOULD NOT KEEP QUIET - A RESPONSE TO UWUMA PRECIOUS
It is a rather banal charge brought up by theists that atheists should not be talking about God if they do not believe that he exists. In a debate between American Christian apologist Frank Turek and the late Christopher Hitchens on the existence of God, this was the first question an audience member brought up against Hitchens after the Q&A session. So it is not surprising to hear this challenge from theists. However, it is something of a brain bug to me when I hear atheists give the same challenge, even though this rarely happens. A friend on Twitter recently shared an Instagram post with me, a set of screenshots from a Facebook post written by one Uwuma Precious, a former Christian who later became agnostic, then an atheist. The fundamental injunction Precious gives in her post is that, since atheists do not believe that God exists, they should not go about bashing religion or God. She gave her reasons for this position, reasons which came across to me as rather familiar ...