Is Atheism Intellectual Cowardice?

[Angrboda]

"I don't believe in god therefore I don't need to learn anything else"...

Yeah, you know what, Im gonna call bullshit on that one Polaris, I think your "few" is equal to my "none". By all means, if you've actually encountered someone who has said something like this, send em my way to bitchslap em, but I'm willing to bet that you haven't.

I think you will find a portion of atheists who aren't "life long learners" just as you will in any group. The question is rather is the relative size of this group tangibly, quantifiably larger for atheists on account of their atheism or not. Lacking seeing specific evidence that this is the case, I'm going to maintain skepticism and withhold belief of this notion until I have reasonably compelling evidence. "Polaris' personal experience" doesn't feed my bulldog.

Moreover, while life long learning does have important benefits for anyone, especially to general health and fitness, I wouldn't make a moral or other judgement about someone simply because they lack this trait. That's being normative about something which is probably just a matter of natural variation, and I don't think that makes sense.

Myself, I love to learn. I'm also rather lazy. Neither of these necessarily make me a better or worse person in and of themselves.