Quote:I think it's far more important to the religious that atheism have some sort of identifiable "leader" who speaks for us, or group thereof.
It's the same reason they often need to lump us all together as a religion; as a group we're pretty nebulous, with no centralised focus - therefore no clear target to attack. Nor is there any single direction from which a perceived attack might come. To an institution built around a central authority figure, that's a really scary concept.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
