I didn't mean to imply that you were supporting the idea, just commenting on the idea in general. It does seem as if many people consider atheism to be some kind of organized movement with leaders and communities. I can see why atheists would seek each other out when we're in a world that still has a significant population of theists and still suffers under the effects of their beliefs and belief systems. I am just wary of ever becoming part of the church of atheism.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
