As a REAL atheist, I’d like to take the opportunity to tell you to sit down and shut up. You’re embarrassing us.

To everyone else: I offer an apology. Real atheism isn’t about angsty childish complaints and smug insults. Nor is it about becoming the very thing you claim to hate- a judgmental arrogant asshole.

Actual atheism is simply the decision to not believe in any deities. Live and let live.

I love it when people pretend to know what "the book" says better than Christians (or anyone else for that matter).

There’s no pretending. Most christians have never actually read it, and a lot of atheists are atheists exactly because they have.

The book is a bunch of non-sensical, contradictory fairy tales written and rewritten by a million dudes, a thousand times over, to manipulate others.

True, but one of the few things it isn't unclear or downright self-contradictory about is that the main dude said to help the poor and otherwise marginalised people.

I love it when people pretend to know what "the book" says better than Christians

As an atheist who's actually read the damn thing rather than just gotten the perspectives of conservative preachers and politicians, I'm not pretending. I do in fact know better than some so-called Christians what their stupid book says.

I also follow the more empathetic parts of it better than anyone on the "Christian Right"