(July 23, 2011 at 4:14 pm)weakagnostic Wrote: And I just chose week agnostic because my personal impression from reading this forum is that atheist sometimes means aggressive and that doesn't fit me at all.
Nope, atheism only pertains to belief, not personality. And the people here only seem aggressive because this is the only refuge some of us have from religion so we get a bit pissy with the preaching and whatnot.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell