(October 6, 2013 at 3:30 pm)Zazzy Wrote: My atheism is the cheapest of all- I was raised by godless people and never thought at all about religion until I was in middle school, and never had any belief. It has always been just absent from my life, and I have trouble understanding why people feel so strongly about it. Unlike many people here, who have paid dearly in family and friends to be who they are intellectually and morally, I have never paid any price at all.
And I couldn't care less about whether people think atheists are intelligent as a group or not. I've met some dumb-ass atheists and some brilliant theists. This is a weird topic.
The implication is that we are all supposed to be wandering around in tweed jackets smoking pipes and discussing where Einstein went wrong with his relativity thing.
This is just as much a sterotype as all christians being totally blinkered self deluding morons.
I mean some of them can't be surely!
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
