[FiddlePig]

To start with full disclosure... I am a Christian.

Big “A” atheists are far more willing to believe in UFOs than God. Their nonbelief is based (IMHO) and some kind of “deep soul” anger at God for reasons I’m not sure even they understand... Thus we get that arrogant condescension of Bill Maher and his types.

In my observations and again IMHO… when one rejects the Savior, all that is left is Ego… Ego is a cruel and merciless master, never satiated, demands to be worshiped, and becomes angry in the presence of God. So why do atheists pour such vitriol on those of us who believe? Again (IMHO) the presence of God convicts the unredeemed sinner… and the mere mention of God demonstrates his presence!

Thus we get the rage of the heathen mentioned in Psalm 2:1.
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? “

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Those who believe in a god to hate, is no Atheist.

[MrB]

Again (IMHO) the presence of God convicts the unredeemed sinner… and the mere mention of God demonstrates his presence!

2 cor 2:14-16
14But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. 15For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 16To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task?

[Tribune7]

The Gallup Organization, under contract to Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion, asked American adults a series of questions to gauge credulity. Do dreams foretell the future? Did ancient advanced civilizations such as Atlantis exist? Can places be haunted? Is it possible to communicate with the dead? Will creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster someday be discovered by science?

The answers were added up to create an index of belief in occult and the paranormal. While 31% of people who never worship expressed strong belief in these things, only 8% of people who attend a house of worship more than once a week did.

[Tribune7]

And get this:

The night before his performance on Conan O'Brien, Mr. Maher told David Letterman -- a quintuple bypass survivor -- to stop taking the pills that his doctor had prescribed for him. He proudly stated that he didn't accept Western medicine. On his HBO show in 2005, Mr. Maher said: "I don't believe in vaccination. . . . Another theory that I think is flawed, that we go by the Louis Pasteur [germ] theory." He has told CNN's Larry King that he won't take aspirin because he believes it is lethal and that he doesn't even believe the Salk vaccine eradicated polio.