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Doesn't sound like the actions of a "strong atheist" (if such a thing can or should even exist) to me... just sounds like bog-standard human behavior.
But you've left all of that behind, right? You're a big, strong, rational main character now that will never be put into such a vulnerable situation ever again, right?
Perhaps it is and perhaps it isn't - and that probably isn't even relevant.
When I cease to be hungry I stop eating - that doesn't mean I reject the concept of food.
In other words... atheist reasoning only works as long as everything is comfortable and non-threatening? It offers absolutely nothing to those in distress?
I'd say that's a big, gaping hole in said reasoning.
So does non-belief, apparently. At least, that's what the narratives I hear from atheists seem to suggest.
You want a drink with all that straw, man?
Depends... is it big enough to fill the giant gap in atheist reasoning?