Thought I was done with this forum, but since you directly asked atheists a question and since nobody else is responding, I guess I should.
First, atheists in general are NOT obsessed with religion, nor do they hate religion. Atheists include everybody who don't believe in gods. That includes many budhists, taoists, as well as secular jews, secular hindus and lapsed christians, and just plain non-believers who hold no animosity and often no interest in religion whatsoever.
Those atheists who are concerned with religion, such as the ones you quoted, and even such as myself (who are not the same as those you quoted but nevertheless are concerned about religion) are often concerned for very good reason.
Imagine for a moment if you lived in a society where most people believe in faeries and leprechauns (such society has existed). Imagine the people taught their children these myths. Imagine they tried to enact laws based on these myths. Imagine some of them started killing each other over these myths, stopping marriages of others based on these myths, fighting agaisnt life saving scientific research because of these myths, refusing their kids blood transfusions or otherwise abusing their kids because of these myths, etc.
Imagine if these believers in faeries and leprechauns pemeated all aspects of your society to the point that you couldn't get elected to office without at least pretending to believe in leprechauns and immagine if they declared that those who don't believe in faeries and leprechauns can't be good or moral people, because morals come from the faery queen at the end of the rainbow, in the pot 'o gold.
Imagine a long history of people warring over the right interpretation of the book of rainbows and writing on internet boards like this one that they hope everybody who doesn't beleive in leprechauns drops dead, and imagine the moderators and other members being more concerned about people drawing cartoons of rainbows.
I think you would be concerned too.
You may even start to generalize people who believe in leprechauns and faeries as all having the above issues and problems, even though they surely would not, and you may write books like the "Leprechaun Delusion" or "How Faery belief poisons everything"... ...or you may not.
But even if don't, you can be pretty sure that other nonbelievers will. Then somebody on an internet board like this one may start a thread like this one and ask "why are you nonbelievers so obsessed with faeries and leprechauns", even though you yourself are not.
Now.... I predict that many here will not actually read or think about what I just posted and will instead avoid doing so by acting offended and outraged over my making an analogy of Gods and mythical creatures. If you do that then you completely missed the point. To atheists, you see, Gods ARE mythical creatures, and you can no more disprove the existence of faeries than I can disprove the existence of Allah.
That's really all there is to it. And those oft repeated claims from theists about atheists being nervous and unsure about their lack of belief, or "hating God" (which makes no sense at all for somebody to hate something they don't believe exists) just isn't so for most of us.
Now you've heard it from an atheist, and you can discuss amongst yourselves. I'll refrain from posting again. Have a nice weekend everybody
. He said he doesn't believe in paranormal phenomena that he became godless, but it's his obsession to attack even scientific proofs about God and ESP phenomena that's too ridiculous.
