I think that the biggest myth that we hear from atheists is that somehow, the rejection of the religious paradigm makes them different people or even better people.

I think it's a myth that you've heard this myth. Atheism, to start with, is not "the rejection of the religious paradigm" (whatever that means). I'm an atheist (and I think so are most other atheists) because, as yet, insufficient evidence has been presented to me to demonstrate anything other than that God almost certainly does not exist. Good atheism is a shrug, not a pointing of a finger. That isn't religion. Religion is something that wraps itself round the almost certainly false premise of God's existence. I'm no better or worse than anybody else, as far as I know (though we can break that down into categories, me and my friends). I know that very many people who adhere to religion live good and virtuous lives (though you're disqualified, no matter how nice you are, if you lie to children that myth is truth, or tell people that poverty is a virtue). Atheists don't really jiggle around to classify themselves as better or worse than someone with a different, er, belief system - basically because we haven't actually got one. I don't think you could come up with a single statement from any atheist that he's better than someone else because he's an atheist. We're a very self-deprecating lot, you know. Humility is my middle name and I'll bloody shout it from the rooftops.

And you need to desist from your ridiculous vendetta against Stringsinger. He is one of the more thoughtful and measured posters here and he takes a good deal of trouble over what he posts. You carry on like you do and you'll have everyone concluding that Jack thinks anyone who disagrees with him is automatically insulting him. We have words for that syndrome.