These infallible atheists are every bit as rigid and intolerant, as are the religious fundamentalists they oppose.

Funny how as a Believer you expect Atheists to be Agnostic. Are you agnostic, Joe? Where's the evidence for your belief? As an Atheist I see plenty of evidence everywhere I look - at least an absence of evidence - for God only exists in a scriptural context with a vague sort-of mythological provenance by way of a twisted mirror-metaphor on the very worst attributes of patriarchal human nature based on earlier pantheistic traditions. There's nothing so very fundamentalist in saying this - or infallible, or intolerant and rigid : it's simply pointing out the obvious.

Religious people actively elect to believe, just as smokers actively elect to smoke, and junkies actively elect to use heroine. Non-religious people don't seek that sort of fix, rather they find it in the everyday wonders of cosmic nature or the joyful diversity of human society whatever they believe or don't believe and feel, rightly, we'd be better off without the obfuscations of a non-existent God because nature is the whole of the case & every more wondrously so the more that is discovered.