Atheists & Agnostics
In reply to the discussion: Dishonesty and thoughtlessness in believers. [View all]intaglio
(8,170 posts)There is no fundamental atheist teaching there is only the theorum "there is no God," which most people arrive at via introspection.
Literalist?
What book? There is no required reading for an atheist.
Atheist?
You have been told before atheism and atheist are not capitalised. Neither can be a proper noun (literally). Note that there are movements within the class atheist that can be capitalised; New Atheism and Atheism Plus are two
Once you start to realise errors these you might start to see how your misconceptions about the subject might be considered patronising and insulting.
There are rude and/or noisy and/or inconsistent and/or incoherent atheists but there are no literalist ones. There are also rude and/or noisy and/or inconsistent and/or incoherent theists (another word not capitalised because it is not a specific movement); some of these, however, often claim to be literalist and fundamentalist, which words are frequently used interchangeably.
Your real difficulty seems to be that you want every discussion about religion to be conducted in terms of respectful reverence but, given the insistence that many theists insist that they accept the guidance (literal or metaphorical or allegorical) of the chosen texts. Such entirely logical discourse is unlikely because those same texts are (to an atheist) irrelevant, nonsensical, contradictory and often fraudulent.