Thank you Guest josep! You win the big cigar! That really is the whole point of this exercise. With virtually stereotypical accuracy some individuals in the category, the is CATEGORY of atheism attack the category, a-hem, the CATEGORY of religion. There is no focus nor any attempt to understand just what the individual who has been lumped under the nameplate thinks or believes or why or whether they have some validity their beliefs. And this door swings both ways. It is repugnent to a man of reason to have some cockeyed religious person make a blanket dismissal of all things scientific, theory and practice, without any comprehension of what that may entail. And it is equally repugnent to a person of faith who has made an informed decision based on his life experiences and knowledge to be categorized with those with who he dissagrees, often for the very same reasons the atheist dissagrees.

There is no true test for either category. That is all they are: broad labels that MAY serve to bring awareness but all too often serve to promote non-thinking. Thnak you, thank you, thank you josep.