If I were an Atheist

[Angrboda]

A poll that I ran seems to suggest that only 15% of atheists consider atheism to require being of your 'hard' variety.

https://atheistforums.org/thread-14681.html

One of the most important rules of logic is that just because the majority of a group claims something to be true does not mean that that concept is true. An important difficulty of opinion polling is pining down whose opinion is relevant. It has been shown that group animals follow their "leaders", so to speak, and elections are decided more by the opinions of certain relevant personages who influence the majority, rather than the majority itself. Therefore, one ought, theoretically, to merely ask those who opinions are most influential in deciding elections. But pollsters rarely, if ever, do that, because it is well near impossible to decide who is most influential. As a consequence of the impossibility of deciding whose opinion is relecant, opinion polls do not and should not decide questions pertaining to truth. Even if one successfully forecasts the defeat of an incumbent government, one will never be able to decide whose decisions were decisive in making the overturning of the incumbent a reality and, even more importantly, the opinion poll says absolutely nothing about whether voters actually chose wisely. Opinion polls, in short, are not and shall never be arbiters of truth.

Whoah, look at them goalposts move!