Atheistic Style

There is a style common to many atheists, including:

1. a refusal to recognize how democracy relied on Christianity, and how no atheistic culture has lasting democracy (apart from most of Europe)
2. a refusal to credit the role played by faith in great contributions of many people, such as Isaac Newton
3. a general disbelief of unseen and unquantifiable concepts, such as love, intrinsic beauty and fidelity
4. a belief that atheists are somehow smarter than those having faith, downplaying contributions by Christians
5. a belief that humans are smarter today than 100 and 1000 years ago
6. a view that most of science is known and understood, in contrast to Isaac Newton's view that little is understood
7. a focus on materialism, and a devotion to relativism in many forms
8. a generally pessimistic or depressed view of life
9. among scientists, a belief in never-detected gravitons, black holes, dark matter, super strings and life in outer space
10. belief in the Nobel Prize, universities and newspapers as oracles of truth
11. overreliance on hearsay and a perception (often wrong) of what most people think
12. an insistence on censoring prayer from the classroom

See also

• Liberal style