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[Faith No More]

Because of the negative associations they have from most people's time in a religion?  I guess that makes sense as a motivation, but it seems impractical.  And it fits oddly with the "Us vs. Them" attitude pretty prevalent on these boards.  A group of people brought together by their desire to not be in a group?  Although maybe that makes enough sense.

The "Us vs. Them" mentality is only held by some users here.  There are others that understand that we all have different factors leading us to our beliefs and it's not something that needs to be a dividing line.  You'll find at least a few people here that are even married to believers, myself included. It can be hard to stay away from that mindset, however, when many vocal theists embrace it passionately.

We're not a group of people brought together by desire not to be in a group.  We're a group of people that don't get to meet many like-minded people in our daily lives, and so we hop onto the internet to find some.  It just so happens that many of those people are also strong individualists.

I'm probably just making the initial point, which is I'm associating a bunch of things with Atheists that I probably shouldn't be.  I do find this subset interesting though.  People who find 'the truth' of it all irrelevant to how they view their relationship with the world.  Whose atheism allegedly isn't a factor in their perspective.  But really, isn't that how most animals behave, I suppose?  You don't see cats or penguins pondering this nonsense.  They just behave as they see fit.  But I'm not sure humans are capable of that, even if they want to believe they are.

Atheism is just one position on one claim, and there are millions of ways to view the world and still be an atheist.  That's why we say it doesn't factor into our perspective.  It's our perspective that led to our atheism.