Question for Atheists

[abaris]

I'd have respected this guy more if, after we pointed out why atheism isn't a proper noun, he'd said "oh really? I didn't know that. Thanks for clarifying - that's actually helpful."

Quite so. And honestly I don't get what's to research about atheism. If I were to write about a christian I would foremost create a character with a life story, with experiences that shaped and made them. I would never assume that christians are a faceless mass just following marching orders.

But quite often I get the impression that certain religious people view themselves in that way. They believe that certain values, for lack of a better word, are written in stone and all of them have to subscribe to to the same. And so they project that on atheism.

In fact, when reading his first post about christians loving their country, I was already a little bit put off. Without him knowing or noticing, he already gave us a glimpse of his narrow understanding of humanity. It was clear that he built his views on a rather small sample of American christians and went out to project and generalize.