Expounding on my previous post: it seems to me there must be a reason why those who express confidence in their athiesm often spend so much time trying to rail against religion. Is it a nagging doubt, or simply the language of one that feels superior. I'm not at all a Christian, Muslim, or anything else, but why should I spend my time arguing against these faiths? I don't often here religious people rail day after day against atheists. I think the root of this (and don't think I'm knocking atheism in general: I have many friends that are and they are as moral of people as any I have met) is the fact that middle America tends to be in part religious, and the coffeehouse elite never tires of attacking white middle America. In the same vein that vegetarians often spend a lot of time ridiculing the cheap and easy traditional foods they themselves don't eat: yet another way in which they can attack those they feel oh so superior too, and by proxy, their own parents. The very people who struggled to send them to