Cool posts! After reading them, my take is two things.

Jeri summed one up - "don't be a jerk". It really is that simple, although it really is complex fer the stunned as me arse and there seems to be a lot of them

The second is troubling for me. Atheists who deem themselves of higher "intelligence" seem not to grasp the reasons for religion and the good it has done over untold years (don't bother to post about the bad stuff... that just shows you don't acknowledge the good stuff... assuming, of course, that you have any knowledge of the role religion played in the development of where we are today).

Believe in a higher power than me? No. I believe in what my religion actually says (which many don't understand, especially atheists) and what I believe my religion says is... I... me and only me... am God to me. God is within me. I choose to do right or wrong. No one else makes that choice. I have to answer to me and to all others. If I am a "God fearing man", I fear ME and MY choices. If I pledge fellowship within a religion I am not pledging servitude to a "ghost". I am pledging allegiance to me and my fellows. I am about as atheist as one can get and still believe that "God" exists... because I am he within the context of what I believe my religion truly teaches - the same as the religion of Jeri... "Don't be a jerk."

Offer void for door to door salesmen.