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Atheists seem to always associate the most ridiculous ideas with faith, such as assuming that people pray to an old bearded man on a cloud to save them from a red guy with a pointy tail, simply because that's how one group of people illustrated scripture for a time.  Then, because such an idea is so easy to dismiss, they can't understand how anyone else could ever believe in anything.    

 

I don't presume to know how people of faith think. I ask you to extend the same courtesy to Atheists.

I said "seem to", as this has been my experience with people calling themselves atheist.  I did not mean to sound as if I presume all atheists would do that.  Was just trying to point out that it always seemed to be the anthropomorphic/personal aspects of deity that atheists reject, even though many people of faith would question such accounts too.