'strikes me to be a bit of a double standard that it is ok to say that Christians are deluded and such things, and then get upset when someone puts quotation marks around "atheists"'
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It was me that queried the motivation for 'atheist' instead of atheist, so take it this was addressed to me. I have therefore read it over & over, & cannot follow the train of thought here at all, Stim; can see no logical or causal link between the two halves of the formulation whatever. Can't see why disagreeing with the tenets propounded by Christianity should cast doubt on the genuineness or sincerity of one's views as a self-avowed atheist, which is all I can interpret the quote-marks as implying. What, exactly, is the point you are trying to make?

~M~