Do All Atheists Have Personality Defects?

[saras]

2. Yes, and killing the messenger doesn't change it any, just like the colorblind are "defective"

A rare few of them can talk sensibly about "religious" experiences and how one might interpret them differently than mainstream (or any) religion, but the large majority give the impression of second-graders who haven't learned to add trying to discuss linearly homomorphic signatures over binary fields. The "personality defect" consists of the Dunning-Kruger effect, i.e. they don't get that other people have experiences that they don't, often have decades worth of these experiences and much education in others' experience of these realms, and these experiences change one in sometimes radical ways that need explanation and resolution.

But they'd rather, in general, focus on fundamentalists and literalists, because then they are basically quarreling with equals.

Personally, I just don't talk to people about fashion. I know that I don't get it. I just don't see, even with schooling and guidance, the things that people who CARE about fashion see. I am, for all practical purposes, blind to them. So I know that my insights are of trivial benefit, if that.