Often I find atheists who, by the mere fact of being, are considered superior to believers, and so manifest and exhibit no break (and in some cases, this insistence is suspect because it seems to reveal some insecurity that belies the supposed superiority of that claim). It is not uncommon to find an atheist who does not hesitate to self-identified as more intelligent, rational or even more brave (before the existence and nonexistence) of any believer.
To begin, we should remember that being an atheist means only, not to accept the hypothesis of the existence of gods. Nothing more. Is a property of the person who does not add to it any other feature that is completely independent of its other features. You can be atheist and left and right or atheist, atheist and literate and illiterate or atheist, an atheist and a skeptic or atheist and believer in pseudoscience and / or the paranormal ... And none of those other features makes less atheist atheist. Gregariousness and the inevitable need for identification of human beings do that very often more of an atheist holds the expectation that others will also qualify as such share their ideas and other ideological or intellectual. Not necessarily prove that these people and causes great confusion, and even leads them to conclude that another individual can not be an atheist "real" since it is not the sort of atheist who expect and want. In fact, even some that have arrogated personal mission to distribute the "card atheist" as if that power autoadjudicarse help them assert their own atheism.
belief (yes, belief) in the supposed superiority over religious believers that we mentioned at the beginning of the misunderstanding stems from the fact described at the beginning of the paragraph above. We can say that atheism, as intellectual position is more rational than religious belief, but this claim from the person holding it is, in itself, necessarily more rational is a logical leap unjustifiable. Being an atheist, as we said, means only an atheist. You can, for example, be an atheist and at the same time extremely irrational in other areas. And, again, that does not makes you a fake atheist, unless you intend to give this concept a personal meaning and restricted, which is what many atheists actually incurred.
Finally, not a few atheists should understand that it is justified to blame, since the alleged superiority, a believer merely for being. Religious belief is purely emotional and, as such, is not subject to the will of the subject: the believer is never because they choose to be. And, on reflection, not the atheist it is usually (ever, rather?) As a result of a conscious and voluntary decision. Is there then any reason to be proud it?
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