Alex O'Connor views atheism as an intellectual pursuit that requires an ongoing willingness to be proven wrong by engaging in serious debate.

“if I wasn't seriously considering it then what am I doing here what's the point in having a debate or a conversation with a Christian that I'm going to sort of put out to the world and say look at this interaction where we're all trying to get to the truth”

Justin Brierley asserts that secularism often adopts quasi-religious characteristics when it attempts to replace the traditional Christian narrative.

“in the absence of God people don't simply Stop Believing they something else takes the place of God we're we're no less religious in a sense even if we get rid of you know formal religion um and I think yeah like like him I would say we are seeing the rise of that in certain you know Pro”