Irreverence isn't bigotry, because ideas and beliefs are not people.

[lazarus]

68. really?

Long before i entered this thread:

"humblebum
39. I consider atheism to be extremely narrow-minded, narrowly focused, and generally

one that assesses and evaluates every other point-of-view from that same extremely narrow perspective. For that reason I feel that giving any respect to such a mentality is misguided, and potentially dangerous as history demonstrates.

humblebum
41. The "positivist" method or "logical positivist" or 'logical empirical method", each of which

can be used to describe much of atheistic reasoning, are human constructs, purposely "invented" to eliminate any form of religious, metaphysical, intuitive, a priori, etc., types of reasoning. "

You clearly said it's a type of reasoning, twice. You also said it's a mentality that leads to other things, which is also clearly wrong.

As for thinking as an atheist thinks, how's that? Many Buddhists are both atheists and mystics, and i can assure you we have very little in common. Sam Harris is a popular "gnu atheist", and we disagree on several major issues.

I'm an atheist. Tell me how I think, then, because of my atheism.

I'll save you the trouble of trying. The truth is, I have a world view that is opposed to magical thinking. This results in my being an atheist. You have it exactly backwards.

I suspect this is because you don't really understand the mindset that leads to atheism, and the lack of organization and rigid creed. There isn't an atheist Pope handing down edicts. There isn't an atheist Bible that tells us all how to think. We all arrived at our atheism in different ways, through different paths.