I would say Shaw (and his buddy smokey whom I am starting to suspect is the same person posting under two nicks--wouldn't be the first time) is a fraud in more ways than one. Nobody could possibly speak so condescendingly and divisively to people in person as he does to people in this forum and still have all his teeth. I've never seen anybody who professes to be an atheist address believers to their faces the way he does here. He would have to be dysfunctional.

I suspect he is very probably, as he himself admits, unrecognizable in person. This means one of two things: 1. He is a coward who hides behind his anonymity online to spew his hate speeches at people who have done nothing to him and obviously enjoys himself, or 2. He knows that his behavior here is unacceptable in a real social setting and would likely result in his getting fired for being an asshole but, again, can't help himself online because it's so much fun to piss such stupid, lowly people off.

I would like people to know that in spite of his "We atheists believe..." stuff, he does not speak for anyone other than himself and his alter ego smokey. As an atheist, I am friends with a quite a number of people of various religious backgrounds and I begrudge them nothing. I view atheism as a personal choice for me and not a mandate for everyone whom I don't feel quite come up to my level of professionalism, education and intellect. I've had some great discussions about religion with people who were deeply Christian because I respect their right to believe as they do and they reciprocate. I have more than my share of faults and shortcomings--too many to waste my time thinking that people should be just like me. I find the very idea creepy. And I find people creepy who think that everyone else needs to believe as they do.