Quote Originally Posted by JimR View Post
Atheists spend most of their energy on self defense, not a lot of time to go on the attack.
That depends on the majority. Recently I was in a discussion where I was seriously on the defense and the atheists were piling on me.

When I then mentioned that science will always have to rely on some leap of faith (because all theories are inevitably based on one or more axioms) I got the flame treatment, telling me that at least science was trying to explain stuff, and I was just being a sheep, and one day we might be able to explain the examples I've given on current axioms (which will just lead to other axioms), ....

On the whole, I think how people treat each other has more to do with the kind of people they are, rather than whether they are religious or not.