> The overly enthusiastic "baby atheist" phase is very human, and very common Indeed, it's true for any new belief really: people who go the opposite direction

> The overly enthusiastic "baby atheist" phase is very human, and very common Indeed, it's true for any new belief really: people who go the opposite direction and become religious show similarly ardent and sometimes abrasive behavior. Or people who convert between major religions. The same for political ideologies. I think it's just part of the process of switching your thought patterns, at least for the majority of people. A new paradigm, your mind spends a lot of energy on processing it. So it becomes a large part of your external aspect as well.