Been here a while-Ponderings

[Excited Penguin]

There is a double standart when it comes to bringing god and religion into every conversation, as you put it. An atheist doing it is definitely not the same as a christian doing it, since the christian is talking bullshit, and the atheist is merely fighting back, and rightly so. People like you that equate the two I deem mediocre and superficial and too, want nothing to do with, since you wouldn't have much to talk about, let alone find a "common ground".

Thank God people's lives don't revolve around your evaluation of them, then

I see what Vic is saying - outside of this forum I'm personally only a reactive atheist, discussing religion if it's brought up in conversation. An atheist who starts conversation with that kind of thing does rub me up the wrong way - and yes EP, there are atheists who do it pretty much out of the blue. Everyone has an axe to grind somewhere, some are just more subtle in expressing it than others.

I don't agree that atheists start talking about how they hate religion "out of the blue". In any case. They have a right to. So I don't very much care for your personal feelings about it and really, don't feel the need anymore to explain why those kinds of atheists do what they do.  You're too naive to get it, apparently.

I'll take bluntness over beating around the burning bush anytime.