As I noted at the start of my post, my father was a famously professed agnostic, and we used to argue about this all the time. However, that didn’t stop him from writing Farewell to God. Now Farewell to God is not the level of attack that I understand Root of All Evil to be of course but it’s still a strong critique of Christianity.

But once again, this is pushing the boundaries between “do” and “say.” Yes, talk and argument are forms of action, but this doesn’t dispute my core thesis that the difference lies in what they say not what they do.

I will credit that quite possibly agnostics are less likely to get “evangelical” about the message than atheists. There are many stripes of atheist, ranging from Dawkins who wishes to actively promote his reasoning to those who simply wish the religious would leave them alone.