A predator will never entirely eliminate the prey it depends
on. It will starve from its success and thus do its part to re-balance the two populations. Atheism can never reign as itself. As a cultural element, with any defeat of Theism,
Atheism loses its relevance as a necessary refutation.
A valuable book, A Human Strategy, aphorism 387
387 A valuable book may be torn to pieces without diminishing the human spirit, just so long as the words have already been read and understood. To feel the loss of the book — at its material destruction, even though one had already digested its contents fully and had aligned oneself toward its overall direction — is evidence that one values the non-human being over human becoming , the static thing over the dynamic process . In response to the fear of our unknowable future we would rather freeze ourselves into a single stage of growth at the expense of the entire metamorphosis. A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism