Ultimately I just can’t accept that this particular (lack of) belief is in some way different and better in the human condition. If you don’t think that great, obviously I’ve been soured by too many people who do think exactly that.*

Better? It depends how you mean. But yes, that is part of your fallacious assumption about me, and about atheism in general.

I think it’s better for me. I think it’s definitely better than believing one has the right to remove rights from others because of religious beliefs. I don’t think it’s better than someone for whom their religion is— in my eyes, of course— an expression of their love for life and their fellow man, and their attempts to be good people.

*Although there would be some irony to that, that’s exactly the kind of response I complain about when the big I comes up ;)

Yes. There’s a lot of irony to that. Especially since you started this off with a post that you admit was designed to inflame. That’s the second time I’ve seen you do that. That’s also called ‘trolling’. You shouldn’t do it.