(October 28, 2014 at 6:10 pm)trmof Wrote: Well I think this thread has sufficient response to demonstrate that hard, gnostic, positive (and therefore irrational) atheists are not a tiny minority as several people have claimed. They are in fact a very vocal and significant contingent, and, if the poll is any indication, quite possibly a majority. Thank you, your participation has been most helpful.
Atheists are too diverse a population to characterize so simplistically. Atheists include everyone who doesn't hold that one irrational belief, the one about gods. Other than that we can vary between a Spock-like obsession with logic and rationality to a very touch-feely regard for the mysterious. We can be kind or cruel, tolerant or judgmental. Educated or ignorant. Insightful or thick. There is no atheist-type. Every personality type is capable of not believing in gods.
