What do you think about atheists?

i don't care what people believe as long as the don't try and force their beliefs on me

That depends on the Atheist. I can totally respect a lack of belief in a higher power or any metaphysical aspects of life. Not believing what can't be seen or proven is a very rational approach to life and I can respect that.

However, I do not care for atheists who feel the need to bitch about religious discussions in their presence (that don't involve them or even make mention of the subject of atheism) because "it's not true, you're talking about bullshit and it's bothering/offending me".

I've seen it plenty of times, I even saw it today in my class. A bunch of students were having a peaceful discussion about the founding of the Baptist religion and a few Atheist students were telling them to shut up and keep it to themselves because "it's not even real". It's funny that they can talk about offensive shit like gang-rape, gang-banging, fictional shit like movies and books they've read that obviously aren't real but they have zero tolerance for peaceful and mild religious/theological discussion?

As I stated already, I can 100% respect that some people think it's total horseshit. That being said, a lot of Atheists think it appropriate to put forth the criticism that Christians who think being intolerant and berating others into believing in Christ who is historically peaceful is an idiotic contradiction but display the same logic themselves: Religion is intolerant and hateful and fuck anyone who is religious.

I refuse to believe that religion and intolerance are the same animal. That intolerance is the bullet and religion is the gun is narrow minded. They are both their own guns and they can both do serious damage on their own. The actions, the words and the policies are the ammo and the more you arm yourself, the more of a reason you give them to arm themselves. Together, however, they do a hell of a lot more damage than one gun or the other.

Everyone is entitled to their beliefs, I just don't like the ones that refer to God as an "imaginary friend" and say all believers are stupid. Same can be said for hypocritical Christians.

I'm fine with it as long as they keep their mouths shut, the same goes to the religious people who tries to force beliefs unto people.

I respect you more if you're an atheist.

I think they have the more rational side of the arguement held. Some of them can take that as an excuse to stroke their egos though, as if they're smarter than those that believe in a certain religion in every way when that's just not true. However you could probably say the same about the religious in terms of ego. Some of them think they're better people just because they're religious.

So I would say I think athiests hold the rational side of the arguement moreso than the religious but they can take that to mean they're smarter in general, which isn't true a lot of the time.

They're cool, they're awesome, they're smart and they're the only ones who see the truth.

I usually don't think of people in terms of their religious or nonreligious beliefs, unless they are especially pronounced. They are quite individualistic.

Since there is no gawd, could not possibly be a gawd, I find it beyond conception that anybody could believe in the unbelievable.
By simply following the logic that they believe man was made in gawd's image, and man is such a despicable, murderous, evil creature, then it would follow, so is their gawd. Who in their right mind would choose to worship such a despicable, murderous, evil creature?

Why can't people just respect that everyone has their own opinions?
Oh yeah. We're all human.
Being in the internet also doesn't help...

This is all so interesting :3
It's nice to know all your thoughts, from every side and angle.

I am an atheist personally. I make it known to people around me, family and friends and I do listen to a lot of podcasts and youtube channels on the subject mostly to hear about the spectrum of atheists out there. It's very interesting and knowledge is true gold, am I right? I do not however actually debate or challenge anyone of their beliefs. It's not my thing I'm not confrontational and I don't want people to think I'm trying to attack them.

It surprises me that people continue to think that atheists are angry people. We're not for the most part. The angriest ones are the loudest that's true but that's true with all things and those of us that appear to be angry are not angry due to Atheism itself or angry at a god but due to the injustices that seem to crop up within the domain of the religious as a whole. Injustices that seem to be continually glossed over and ignored. Religions seem to be completely immune to scrutiny on most levels and platforms and as outsiders we notice this quite a bit more vibrantly.

Anyways this is all just my own thoughts, please take it as that I'm not genius on the subject so....If I'm wrong feel free to speak your mind.

I can understand why someone would be an Atheist, I just don't understand why a lot of them get so angry about people who believe in deities. Why does it matter if somebody believed in something and it didn't exist?

You can't put them all in a box, anymore than you can put religious persons in a box, anymore than you can put all people of African decent, or European decent, or any other group of people in a box.

They are human beings who lack a belief in a deity. There is no other information that you can derive from knowing someone is an Atheist.

I think they have the more rational side of the arguement held. Some of them can take that as an excuse to stroke their egos though, as if they're smarter than those that believe in a certain religion in every way when that's just not true. However you could probably say the same about the religious in terms of ego. Some of them think they're better people just because they're religious.

So I would say I think athiests hold the rational side of the arguement moreso than the religious but they can take that to mean they're smarter in general, which isn't true a lot of the time