Secular Café: Are there differences between the atheists who left religion and those who were never religious?

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Are there differences between the atheists who left religion and those who were never religious? Jun 8th 2012, 21:27 Everyone is different of course, with different temperaments, but in the course of my years on discussion boards like this one, I think I recognise a few tendencies, to which there will of course be exceptions. For a start with, I suspect that the so called 'post atheists', who in broad terms seem to think that atheists should just STFU about religion, tend to come predominantly from the 'never weres' Secondly, I further suspect that those most scathing about belief, in the sense that they tend to be very outspoken, to the point and often beyond the point of rudeness, also tend to be skewed towards the never weres. Thirdly, I think that those to whom arguing against religion is most important, but at the same time tend to focus on attacking the beliefs rather than the believer, tend to come from those who used to be religious themselves. Or perhaps I'm seeing tendencies that aren't really there, but just reflect my own position:dunno: Comments? David

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