Eliminatus said:
I guarantee you know more atheists than you realize. There are more of us than those who like to blast it. Just like I know more Christians than I realize. These are the normal ones.
Edit: Dang. Don't know how I missed the post above me. But yeah. Same point.
Completely agree. I always say that for the most part, atheists and religious people aren't all that different. They're normal people with jobs, families, and lives. They just think differently on the whole God thing. You would never know what their beliefs are until they were to tell you. The more outspoken ones like the far religious right and the Reddit-type atheists tend to represent people with their worldview.
I think most civilized people know it's wrong to think of all Christians as the Westboro Baptist Church and all atheists as the smug "all religious people are stupid" type.
Taking it a step further, I have long believed that the vast majority of people in the world are agnostic. Only in the sense that no one really really knows if there is a God. Some people
believe, some don't believe. But it's something you just can't know for a fact,