I've met and conversed and had friends over the years who were atheists. My experience was always good with normal atheists. What I find intriguing are the angry or militant atheists. They drip with bitterness, anger and a driving unsatiable desire to tear down the thing that they don't believe in, the thing that doesn't exist. It all seems a bit mad to me. Normal atheists are just cool with their views. Their shorts aren't twisted in a knot and they don't view Christians as an enemy. They don't insist on lashing out or talking about the "thing that isn't".
Militant/Angry atheists are just Nucking Futz. I have no doubt in my mind that this type has had a very bad experience with religion or were raised in a legalistic church environment. The level of hate that they demonstrate indicates a severe and deep knowledge of a metaphysical problem but suppressed. But, there is typically an undeniable psychological problem in that cranium.
