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→Skepticism often does not generate enthusiasm/unity and wavering of disbelief
The author [[John Updike]] wrote:
The author [[John Updike]] wrote:
{{cquote|Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity...of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?"<ref>Updike, John (1989). ''Self-Consciousness: Memoirs'' (New York, NY: Knopf), ch. 4.</ref>}}
{{cquote|Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity...of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?"<ref>Updike, John (1989). ''Self-Consciousness: Memoirs'' (New York, NY: Knopf), ch. 4.</ref>}}
[[File:Cats.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|In his essay ''Herding Cats: Why atheism will lose'', the atheist Francois Tremblay compared unifying atheists to herding cats.<ref>[http://www.liberator.net/articles/TremblayFrancois/herdingcats.html ''Herding Cats: Why atheism will lose''] by Francois Tremblay</ref>]]
[[File:Cats.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|In his essay ''Herding Cats: Why atheism will lose'', the atheist Francois Tremblay compared unifying atheists to herding cats.<ref>[http://www.liberator.net/articles/TremblayFrancois/herdingcats.html ''Herding Cats: Why atheism will lose''] by Francois Tremblay</ref>]]
The atheist Francois Tremblay wrote in his essay ''Herding Cats: Why atheism will lose'':
The atheist Francois Tremblay wrote in his essay ''Herding Cats: Why atheism will lose'':