Studying faith as information is a modern idea, one perverted by the travesty of metaphysics.

More traditionally, professions of faith or its lacking were lost to semantics. Faith was a feeling, and language is useless except to bolster self-delusion and manipulate others. As such, many atheists are fooling themselves by denying their intuition, as are regular church-goers who feel empty and should really come out as atheists if they cared to be truthful.

I am in the former group. I say I am atheist, but I fear death and disease, etc. This yields faith in God. Without fear, one neglects mortality and then the claims of atheism become genuine. (Love has similar effects to fear in this regard. Any strong emotion probably would.)

Immortality is temporary… however, real men don’t talk about feelings. It’s useless, alienating, and usually disingenuous.