<< Blind atheists are much worse than blind theists, precisely because they
defend their position the way they do (usually with more-or-less vague
references to scientific proof); yet they hypocritically refuse to employ
the very tools they claim to base their understanding on when confronted
with a statement not their liking, resorting instead to the kind of
rejection they argue against. Such people deserve no respect.>>
As an agnostic/atheist I must say "amen" to that. The most annoying example
I can think of are atheists that claim that atheism holds some sort of
privileged "default" position. Hence the shifting the burden of proof
irrevocably on to all non-atheists. I think there are no necessary default
positions on these matters. Although I may reject a thousand out of a
thousand attempts to prove a thousand different deity/religious concepts, I
still can only characterize my position as a belief rather than actual
knowlege. To conclude that it is some type "default position" is lazy and
closed minded.
-Jake