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If we're trying to stick to any semblance of critical thinking, agnostism is the only stance that makes makes objective sense; it makes no more sense to be convinced there is not a supreme intelligence behind it all than that there is, though there's never any dearth of folks cxompletely invested in both.

True, but, as I said in another post, postulating such intelligence is arbitrary and does not answer any question.

However, I think that 'devout atheists' merely (over)react to attempts of 'theists' to regulate our lives according to their numerous mutually exclusive and often hostile obviously subjective (to avoid the term 'arbitrary') convictions.

Historically, of course, 'militant atheism' was also a part of political struggle (partly against various churches a political organizations, and partially to convince 'the masses' that the time and place to improve their conditions in here and now, not in some mythical afterlife).
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