Question For Fellow Atheists...

[Autolite]

I'm sort of burnt out on the debating part of it, though sometimes I'll still come on here and spark a fire or two for fun. At the end of the day, most people, including myself, are going to believe what they want to believe about things (it's just that the more sensible among us are willing to change those beliefs if faced with cold, hard facts) so the efforts to argue with Christians, Muslims, or whoever, are mostly futile.

I think that we're both on the same page on this. It's has taken me a very long time but I now realise that people are going to believe what they choose to believe regardless of things like truth, facts or reality. It's a sobering and unsettling realization, well for me it is anyway. I just don't know where people like Dawkins, Carrier, Krauss or Maher get the fortitude to carry on the fight.

robvalue made a comment that made me think. He said that using rationality and logic is the way to defeat or counter Theism. I figure that Atheism has been around just as long as Theism. I wonder at what point in the history of mankind does he reckon that rationality will start to kick in and do it's thing???