THE DIFFICULTIES OF ARGUMENTATIVE SUPPORT FOR MILITANT ATHEISM

Abstract

This article will deal with the conditions for the development and support of militant atheism. By dialoguing with Michel Onfray and Richard Dawkins, we aim to analyze the difficulties of this type of worldview, given its rigidly dogmatic stance. The difficulty would be, not in the existentialist ontological condition of God, but in the lack of conceptual malleability of these atheists. In other words, militant atheism would end up affirming the same conviction as theists, the truth as the structuring foundation of their discourse. As long as the truth is not placed within the realm of doubt, the atheist debate will remain catechetical in its supposedly secular version of the conventicle.