How sure are you that atheists don't "get" religion?

[Thats my opinion]

84. I know full well that the majority of religionists do not have the POV I represent.

But if you think it is a tiny sect somewhere, you are just unaware that it forms a significant part of modern religious thought. And there are thousands of congregations, numerous denominations, scores of church councils and most theological schools that hold what i do. It is not a straw man of my own building.

Part of the issue is they rarely appear here. When I try to encourage them to join the conversation, they having read what is normally posted, are just not going to put themselves in a place where they and all they hold will be be regularly trashed. It is not that they are hesitant to enter the lists where they can be challenged, but frankly the nature of the challenges is often so toxic that they just won't submit themselves to that sort of thing.(just reread posts 4,9 75,79,7,10,18,21.34,38,39---just in this one string!) They wonder why I do. But I am not about to leave my Democratic colleagues under the false impression that there is nobody of faith who is somewhere this side of the 16th century.