Maybe if you could use google and wikipedia you wouldn’t have listed Taoism as a religion that didn’t fit my description?
Man, I don’t really care if someone believes nonsense but what I do care about is when said nonsense interferes with my life, the lives of others (even the believers themselves) and, most importantly, science education. Ken Ham and his ilk firmly push for their creationist bullshit to be taught alongside evolution as competing theories with equal weight of truth. That’s fucking stupid.
Believe what you want, but don’t expect me to buy into or even respect your beliefs. This is the treatment that atheists received from the religious for all of history, and there continues to be a smugness from religious people IRT their beliefs somehow being more respectable or authentic.
The thing most attractive about atheism is its honesty. When pushed, most atheists admit that there could be a god, because there’s no absolute proof that one doesn’t exist. Conversely you won’t find many religious people who would admit there there might not be a god, despite an equal lack of proof that there is.
