JPod, as I’m neither a ‘village’ atheist (what does that mean, anyway?) or any other type of atheist (they are far too religious for my tastes), I don’t have a god in this fight, but I’m at a loss to see how you can single them out in the way you do. While many of the more conventionally devout will have thought through their faith with great care and intellectual rigor, it’s difficult to deny that there is also a strong strand in religious thinking that shies away from purely rational analysis. I seem, for example, to remember hearing something from my years of divinity class about the importance of making a leap of faith….