Fundamentalist Atheism

[Celestine]

Qualify you quantification. Evidence your assertions plz. 'Many'= ? And justification for "?" Is what exactly? Your personal interaction online and in RL?

Bear in mind that if your reply is anything other than something people can analyse and inspect for themselves I do not care one iota, and neither will anyone else, and people will rightly be justified in concluded you have an axe to grind.

I agree 100% that being an atheist =/= 'more' intelligence however. I just fundamentally reject your insinuation that 'many' [???] atheists have reached their conclusion simply to indulge in a lifestyle I would infer for your description above that you find somehow questionable or indeed objectionable. This screams of someone having an inherent bias against a position thus making their position on it questionable.

Here's my evidence, what I said can be said about anyone, literally anyone in any social group that they so choose, though maybe in different circumstances, and for the most part remain true (depending on those circumstances)

1. Theism is only belief in a higher power, generally one or more deities.
2. Just being a theist does not make one intellectually flexible at all, in fact I find this to be false for many theists
3. Though almost every person would tell you that if sufficient evidence were presented they would change their mind this I can assure you is most certainly not the case, many people become stupendously stupid when faced with controversial subjects in which they become emotionally charged in, they thus refute all evidence presented to them
4. Christians who hate Islam are illogical, cue philosophy on why hate is an irrational emotion. (or here's another one, I believe Caucasians who hate Africans and judge them because of their skin color are irrational. Insert philosophy on hate here.)
5. I believe strongly that many teenage girls who have a crush on Justin Beiber, have reached this stage in their life as a result that it was a trendy thing to do. (people do have a tendency to follow the crowd)

You see? It can be said about anyone. It is not an inherit problem with atheism but a very real problem with the thinky parts of our human brains. I do have an axe to grind though rest assured, I use it to chop down egos.

The fact that you rendered a defensive response, demanding evidence for something that is so perfectly construed as could be said about anyone shows that you identify many things I presented in the course of my five points as being qualities of atheists. They aren't. They are qualities of being human.