The Top Ten Misconceptions About Atheists [View all]

[cleanhippie]

Let me correct some of the most egregious misconceptions believers have about us, in reverse order:

10) We don’t eat or molest babies. Nor do we agree with what allegedly atheist dictators did in the past century. Over-all we are good people. All you need to do is personally know one of us to see this. I have no doubt but that you probably already know an atheist. It’s just that you don’t give that person the freedom to tell you in this Christian dominated culture. I wish more atheists would “come out of the closet” because of this.

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3) We don’t claim to know with certainty that a god of some kind doesn’t exist. Not even Richard Dawkins or Victor Stenger thinks it’s impossible that a god of some kind exists (I heard them both say as much in debates). We do think the God hypothesis is unnecessary and irrelevant to life though.

2) We don’t have faith nor a religion. We base our conclusions on the available evidence. We do not take a leap of faith beyond those probabilities. And since to have a religion one must believe in supernatural beings and forces, we cannot be labeled as religious in any meaningful sense.

1) We are not a minority. We are the second largest denomination in America. Depending on how we define an atheist (if we include agnostics who are skeptics with regard to all “revealed” religions) we may even be upwards to 24% of the population. Worldwide we represent third place among the world religions, even though we’re not religious.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/loftus/2011/12/12/the-top-ten-misconceptions-about-atheists-2

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Now, I think this pretty much sums up the atheists/non-believers here on DU, so you can now stop posting the nonsense that directly contradicts this (you know who you are). To continue to make posts that contain this crap means that you are just trolling, are irrelevant to civil conversation, and should be ignored.

IOW, don't be douche.