Claim about the nature of faith

Claim:

“I have long thought that being an atheist is a luxury of having a good life. If I were desperate, I think the lie of a blissful future might give me hope. And hope is a mindset that can only change desperate people for the better. A man falling off a cliff will cling to brittle grass if it’s the only thing around, and rightly so.”

Answer:

In other words you admit that God might actually exist, only, for the time it doesn’t pay to trust in Him. I think that even now you are not an atheist in a strict sense. You admit that there might be something there, even if it only seems to you now like “brittle grass”.