(April 17, 2014 at 1:09 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: If an atheist told you they'd been abducted by aliens or claimed to be a famous person from history, would you class him/her as being sane, rational and realistic?
Probably not, but we could still class him/her as an atheist. Non-belief in god/s and god claims is all it takes.
(Just reiterating your point

At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'