Question for Atheists

[abaris]

I do think we, as a group here, could be a little less nit picky on the "atheists as a community" thing. I understand that atheism doesn't inherently mean anything, but there are some things that if you polled all atheists, we would tend to relate on certain grounds. The importance of science, skepticism, and being socially liberal, for example, are not tenets of atheism by any means, but if you picked an atheist randomly from a group, he or she's (more than) likely to exhibit these traits or have these values.

No, I don't think so. First, it's the fundamental mistake being made about atheists, which in turn leads to the ever repeated bothersome nuisance of atheism being called a belief.

Second, without naming names, there are atheists on this very board, occasionally returning to post their newest conspiracy from lala land, I don't want to be associated with.

And third, even the being socially liberal doesn't hold true in many cases. What about Ayn Rand, her followers and that abysmal philosophy of survival of the fittest?