an icepick through the keyhole

I don't care for "militant atheists." There's no case for God that hasn't been demolished; I note that and go about my business, as long as the religionists leave me along. Militant atheists, in my experience, make the absence of a god a central feature of their lives, which is just bizarre. I'm an atheist, an a-toothfairyist, and an a-Santaclausist, and see no need to be militant about any of those -- at least till they try to take my money or make me obey their sharia.

But faith is an invalid way of reaching any conclusion, and mixing it half-and-half with reasoning doesn't change that.