Why Do Atheists Criticize People's Beliefs?

[Amarok]

I dont know who all these ppl are, bc I have never even heard that before.

Only thing I can think of is these must be extremely poor, uneducated people. But it still doesnt make sense that they would make up a quarter of the US population.

One neither needs to be poor or uneducated to hold odd idea's . And in the case geocentrist's  they may be wrong but they are not dumb. I have spoken to quite a few of them. Most genocentrists follow the Tycho System developed by Tycho Brahe which essentially states.

Tycho Brahe developed his own version of geocentrism, a geoheliocentric model now named after him. According to Tycho the Earth is motionless while the moon and sun move around the Earth. The other planets orbited the sun rather than the earth;

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Most genocentrists  believe this is better then our current heliocentric model .And  will go absurd lengths to defend it to any counter . Now the general reason  you probably never hear of them is most feel they will be ridiculed for holding such idea's .

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What? That cannot be true.

And is it 46% who believe the Earth is less than 10,000 years old?

Yup I fear it is but not just Americans. A good portion of the middle east and central Asia believe this to .