Where atheists and theists may find common ground for discussion

[Warpy]

2. Oh, there is plenty of common ground

and I look forward to the day when discussing one's spiritual life is seen as tacky as discussing one's sexual kink or screwball politics in front of relative strangers. It's the kind of thing that ought to stay in the family and among a very few trusted friends.

In the meantime, it would be helpful if theists stopped trying to define us in terms of belief--we have none and that's what rankles most of them. On our part, we'll stop pointing out inconsistencies in a belief system that is supposed to be irrational, else it wouldn't require belief.

I would greatly prefer to concentrate on policy rather than such minutiae. It would be refreshing to see us all agree on things like living wages, a reduced military budget, and the fact that any theocracy would be unbearable for theists and non theists alike, since theists would be forced into an orthodoxy they find uncomfortable and atheists would simply be rounded up and executed.