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You make a very astute observation. I can see how someone who is not a christian might have created that graphic.

I'm not sure if this has been brought up yet, but...

Why are theists seemingly incapable of spelling 'Atheist'? It's not exactly rocket science.

It could be simple error in some instances. I know how to spell atheist, but my fingers are known to do their own thing sometimes.

I really can't tell wether he is angry or not

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My guess it that they misspell it because it is one of the words which violates the "i before e" rule people learn in English-speaking countries in schools. Deity is also frequently misspellt. As are any German words with ie or ei.

I always liked the explanation that it's "atheist" rather than "athiest" because means "not theist" rather than "the most athi."

What's so different about Atheists? They're just normal people pretty much, aren't they? My dad's an atheist and he's normal enough.

You're talking about Atheists as if they're a separate kind of being, a bit like Auties and Aspies and that they are different from most of the world and the rest of the world is agaisnt them. Erm... No. Atheists can be abnormal or normal, they just have a particularly strong view about religion.

I'm not one, though, but I don't mind them at all.

The distinction is not so much one of neurology as it is one of cultural stereotypes. One could argue that plumbers, taxi drivers, Christians, Voodoists, and stage actors lack a neurologically significant distinction. Yet most "average people" would problem have stereotypes about them being different from the common person.*

*On a sidenote, I think there is much truth in that (I think it was H.G. Wells) quotation "I am not a common man, than again no one is."

I dunno, because whether or not there is a context based neurological difference is something that would be worth investigating. After all, people are likely to act on the basis of their personality, for instance, I would assume that on 5 factor personality tests, atheists in an anti-atheist society would be somewhat high on openness and also relatively low on agreeableness, as they are willing to find a different belief system and also reject social stigmas associated with it.

The earlier bit was a guess, but I would be surprised if there are no correlations between personality/psychological factors and various life decisions. This goes for Christians, taxi drivers, stage actors, etc. There is research showing that certain characteristics are typically held by comedians and by vicious dog owners for instance. http://www.marginalrevolution.com/margi ... dians.html

I can also see how someone who is not a Christian may have created the Shadowgirl account. Just a hunch.

I've talked to her on MSN and seen some of her Christian art and poems, as well as seen some of her posts another forum, for me there is no doubt that she's a Christian.

I'll tell you how it works:

There's a mechanism built in to the human brain - this one's there whether or not you're aspie, don't you worry about that - for believing in things.

Doesn't matter what, once it's in the list of beliefs it stays there.

Me, I believed in God all my life. Fed in more information, reran the equations, everything's good. Get on with it.

One day, though, a little red flag popped up: regardless of whether one started from the position of God's existence, or God's non-existence, the answers came out the same. Occam's razor flashed and I no longer believed. Gosh, what shall I do now.

This was all somewhere back there before Asperger's came into the discussion. Don't you worry about that...

I'm glad it was, really. Trying to reconcile a world where there was a God and he afflicted some of us with complete exclusion from human social intercourse for some God awful reason might have driven me mad.

Interesting, so then this isn't an act.

I've met many times more deranged Christians on some of the Christian forums...

Wow. What a silly variation on the classic "When did you stop beating your wife?" question.

Perhaps you should take a class or two in logic. Make sure ahead of time if you can that they will cover Venn Diagramming.

Of course, if you take logic and really grasp it, you will become an atheist. Whether or not that evolution ends up making you angry or not will be up to you, though.

Definitely feel my LDL's going up