Why do atheists care about the beliefs of others?

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Most don't force their beliefs on others, those apprehensive out the beliefs of others are terrified over how they may impact social policy. As for your stuck-up talking head scientistic sorts who just want to rip on people who'd think outside of reductive materialism, they're forgetting that science is a very slow, constipated, and bureaucratic process for a reason - its there to try to find the most rock-solid reality within its available means and, to find 99.9999999999999% certainty you pay a heavy price - ie. it needs to by that definition ignore what it hasn't figured out how to test until someone's able to think their way out of that box. Unfortunately that very box can create a strong illusion of infallibility and because of that you get a scientific culture that hamstrings its own progress by ridiculing new hypotheses in places where its met nothing but roadblocks and collapsing theories. Takes a while for people at times like that to realize that the status quo isn't working and I think right now we're starting to slide down one of those sort of complacency peaks; ie a lot of very intelligent and analytical people are reopening themselves to a lot of areas that were in previous decades viewed as pure heresy (which I believe to be very much for the greater good of future hypothesis testing).

I didn't read through all the posts but I think the reason why atheists are so gun ho is that they been there done that.

Religion creates alot of separation. Being human is spiritual any way you experience it. I still think and feel that we are spirits in animal bodies and I can relate to any religion. If you can relate to any person despite differences, there is a spiritual component to it although that word is not so good.

We should create a new word that ties the human experience together. I call that shizz. It's poop which grows anew.

who cares? To not change beliefs is like not changing your underwear.

I'm pretty sure that our "magical thinking" is our imagination that brought us out of the caves.

I will say one other thing as well, for those fond of saying "Bald is not a hair color", bald is not a skin color nor the identity of the scalp's wearer either. Its like standing on the top of a plateau, claiming you've found the entire relevant world, and then erratically gesticulating at trees on that plateau when anyone offers their sense that there's more land at the bottom.

I tend to think creative fantasy is great for generating hypothesis, the deductive mind asks whether its falsifiable or not, or, proposes a way to create a falsifiable criteria. Testing ensues, prior to that it was an unknown, after enough tests it becomes a known. Essentially something gets tacked down to our collective reality so to speak by such hypothesis testing. It stops being useful if anyone designs legislation for everyone to have eco-friendly hovercrafts that run on countevailing rings of mercury that haven't been prototyped yet or makes us feel guilty for not having extra chairs and plates at the dinner table for guardian angels.