Believers frequently bear responsibility for atheism. For, taken as a whole, atheism stems from a variety of causes, including a critical reaction against particular religious beliefs, and in some places against the Christian religion in particular. Hence believers have more than a little to do with the birth of atheism. To the extent that believers neglect their own training in the faith, or are deficient in their religious, moral or social life, they must be said to conceal the face of God and religion.




Gaudium et Spes