Not everything in the Bible is true...

[niky]

There is no consistency amongst anyone. Like I said, the world is not black and white only. For me, it's thus:

Fundamentalist religious - hold religion over everything else, and may go to the extremes of not valuing human life or worth due to this.

Moderate religious - live a spiritual life guided by religion, but tempered in their interactions with other men, may accept that there are other religions and beliefs, and can interact with them normally, yet their ethical values are still set by their religion.

Loosely religious - are religious in name only. May commit acts proscribed or prohibited by their religion because their moral compass is not well-set.

Atheistic Fundamentalists - Believe that there is no God, and that it is impossible for there to be a God. May become just as preachy as Religious Fundamentalists.

Moderate Atheists - Believe there is no God, but still constantly search for proof of his existence or non-existence. These are the skeptics.

Loosely Atheistic / Agnostic / Pantheistic - Do not believe in traditional religion. Believe there may be a God or that there is a God, but we do not know his exact nature.

Morality amongst the Atheists is a mixed bag. Existentialists / Communists may be counted as fundamentalist Atheist. They are fundamental in the sense that they hold their philosophy over all other things, despite proof to the contrary... I've talked to activists/communists here in the Philippines, and while some are sensible, others are impossible to talk to.

But many prominent Humanists are also atheistic, and they value, instead, human life, worth and brotherhood. Of course, like I said before, morality is not the same across different religions, either.

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Skepticism is not denial. It is to request proof and look for facts, first and foremost. A skepticist does not deny possibilities, but looks for facts.

But, like I said, some atheists are completely closed to the possibility of a God, but this is because they don't accept any of the profferred proofs for his existence as sufficient evidence.

Many scientists fall between moderate religious to moderately atheistic. Darwin was moderately religious. Einstein was pantheistic/agnostic. It is only amongst some philosophers and potical theorists (Nietzsche and Marx, for example) that you find the truly and utterly anti-God thinkers.