You have me all wrong. I am a part of no movement. I have never once been in a group of people (more than two) where the discussion was about religion and where

You have me all wrong. I am a part of no movement. I have never once been in a group of people (more than two) where the discussion was about religion and where agreement (with me) was had. It's just not a part of my life. I do not think there is a mythology around atheism. This was my question to you, effectively. Atheism is literally the lack of belief in a god. Yes there are people who have constructed belief systems around that lack of belief, but those are not necessary to meet the definition. There is no complex set of beliefs necessary to be an atheist. Just one lack of belief. Anything on top of that is something other than atheism. There are no sects of atheism. But maybe of Atheism-as-you-understand-it. You claim I'm being intellectually dishonest here, but I maintain that we are talking about different things. I'm still curious about the "historical fiction" of any version of (your) "Atheism", but I don't think I'm going to get a conversation about that at this point. If you're talking about the mythologies created by our friends Adolf, Joseph, and Pol -- then you are really stretching. They used anti-religionism (which is not atheism) as a vehicle for their own crazy/evil. I also do not blame Christianity for the Inquisition, although I do blame (bad) Christians for it! It seems that you feel attacked in your beliefs by a vocal minority of atheists. That sucks, absolutely. But militant Theists have far more power in this world than militant atheists. The latter are just rabble-rousers. I am fully aware that tolerant Christians exist. But as intolerants go, the atheists have nothing on the Christians. At least not in terms of numbers or influence. I wish we could ignore the militant Christians as easily as we can ignore the militant atheists.