This is quite true, but again, if I understand you correctly, what’s at work here is the opposite of crypto-religiosity—it is determined denial of anything which might give non-materialistic entities a chance to reenter the conversation. A scorched-earth policy for materialist ontology.
I like that theory even better. It should encompass a superset of the behaviorists encompassed by my “religious cynic” theory—many militant atheists are former faithful gone cynical. But some are not; some learn animosity to the doctrine of the soul only from observing its bad effects.
I like that theory even better. It should encompass a superset of the behaviorists encompassed by my “religious cynic” theory—many militant atheists are former faithful gone cynical. But some are not; some learn animosity to the doctrine of the soul only from observing its bad effects.