> your extreme atheists aren't much different from your extreme believers; they both have strong beliefs about things they can't prove, and for some reason want to go off on them.
You have a mistaken understanding of what atheism is. It is not a belief in anything, but an absence of belief in a deity.
> there are a whole lot of things that we all go around everyday "not believing."
Sure, and yet theism is part of 75% of the world population and influences everything from education to politics. It's perfectly reasonable to talk about atheism within appropriate settings.
You have a mistaken understanding of what atheism is. It is not a belief in anything, but an absence of belief in a deity.
> there are a whole lot of things that we all go around everyday "not believing."
Sure, and yet theism is part of 75% of the world population and influences everything from education to politics. It's perfectly reasonable to talk about atheism within appropriate settings.