Because the children that are now voting think they are all special little snowflakes . <| sep |> Yeah , low drop rate on Ahriman mote dungeon , and on the next FF 3 banner . <| sep |> yeah in the trash <| sep |> But atheism is , literally , when the number of gods you believe in is zero . Lots of atheists believe in karma either directly or in the things happen for a reason sense . Theism is not the only teleological perspective on existence . I understand how you feel about Dawkins . He ' s quite polemic when speaking outside of his field biology . But to some extent , Dawkins and people like him get frustrated when they are trying to do their jobs to teach people about fields they are in fact autorities on and constantly encounter people who are not interested in engaging with the material intellectually . It ' s people who reject the entire concept of science . Given that science drives the modern world , this is simply not a reasonable position to take . One of these people might be able to compartmentalize their thinking about GPS or cellphones being science that works but evolution is science that doesn ' t work . But only a person who really doesn ' t understand science can believe that . The scientific community welcomes challenge and alternative ideas but that ' s I have a different explanation for how this fossil relates to those around it than you do . Not the science of fossil aging is completely wrong and therefore the Earth is only 6000 years old . But in every environment they speak in , some people of this type will be there whose primary goal is to try to disrupt what the others have come often paid to see . Another example is Lawrence Krauss him speaking about modern cosmology , particle theory and how that affects our understanding of the fundamental nature of the universe is fascinating . And it ' s right in his wheelhouse as a cosmologist . One of his roles is to show lay people how science is a reliable tool for understanding the world and is constantly having to defend science in some cases even epistemology itself against people whose only interest is to attack , attack , attack . But they don ' t represent atheism . No one represents me but me . If you would think less of me because you think Dawkins is a jerk , that would make you a bigger jerk . If Dawkinset . al are not to your taste , then don ' t watchread their work . Why should we just accept that in every basic physicsbiologychemistry class or intro to philosophy or psychology class at universities , there ' s a good chance to have one of these people as a fellow student ? Even in some upperdivision philosophy classes at my undergrad , there were eruptions of this nonsense two to three times a month .