DH, your lack of religion likely stems from apathy about the god question. The rest of us actually care about whether or not what we believe is true. Simply because you care less about the god question doesn't mean that I'm somehow an extremist. In that light, everybody could subjectively call someone who is intensely interested in any subject more than themselves an "extremist."
The atheist experience, in my experience, comes decreasing waves of intensity depending on how much you care about truth (which you seem not to as much as myself or Repug), how indoctrinated you were as a child, and numerous other factors. It's frustrating to see the rather idiotic claims from those on this board calling atheism "what my personality is based off of" when it's extremely clear that I'm not nearly as "militant" as I used to be. Basically, no matter what "class" of atheism I am, you are always going to say I'm an extremist, because my stage of militant atheism has frozen in your mind and you are not being open-minded enough to see that I've actually become much more mild. Perhaps you should reflect on these words a bit.
Fun fact: The full length of the Spanish Inquisition was a longer time period than the United States has been a country.
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