I'm sure there are people that are doing it to not fit in (though that seems indiotic to me) but I've noticed far too many of my scientific colleagues being atheist to really think that that's the only reason you can become one.  Sometimes it's just the natural decision after looking at everything as logically as you can.  As a scientist, if I spend every day looking for proof of how things work it's tough to then go home and then believe in something that is solely based on faith.  Just doesn't jive with me.  

I'm not sure if you meant it, but your verbage gives a hilarious implication.

Both of you are incredibly ignorant. 

Your statements would be like me comparing all religious people to the deep south of the USA which fails so fantastically in regard to basic education as to shred credibility to the notion of inbreeding.

Let's modify atheism to simply "rejection of the belief in a personal god". Upon doing so, we've eliminated virtually every religion on the planet as a belief for such individuals. That being said, 93% of scientists from the National Academy of Sciences fall into this group. And I think we can agree that these are intelligent people and not the dullards or pseudo-intellectuals as you, with such inanity, chose to generalize.

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html

Could we ever have a religious thread on VGC that doesn't boil down to "Atheist are dumb" or "religious people believe in fairy tales"?.

As for the OP question, it's an interesting one, though I have to counterpoint it by asking what if the actual god you find in Judgment Day isn't the one you believe in, but one of the 2800 or so deities in recorded history? Just because christianity is the biggest religion in the modern world, doesn't mean that it's automatically the right one. If anything that History has proven is that no religion will ever be completely "right" or "wrong", so to consider your own deity as the only one is pretty selfish, to say the least.

If Judgment Day does come (and consider that Judgment Day isn't exclusive to Christianity as well, since most religions, some which are 3 to 4 thousands of years old have their own version of JD) and I meet the Goddess (i'm Wiccan), I'd probably ask her why wasn't our species capable of overcoming the bitter hypocrisy that defines us as logical animals.

To be fair, most of these discussions don't reveal that atheists are dumb, only evil and without purpose and morals.

OT: I'd say; "Morgan Freeman, nice to finally meet you!"

I would paint the entry way to my house with the blood of a freshly slaughtered goat in the hopes that he would spare my first born son, then I would spit in his eye for all the evil he causes on his beloved creations.

you don't need to believe in god to be a good person and if he said "well, you were a really good person, but man you didn't believe in me, so down you go" then that bitch didn't derserve to be believed in anyway

Hey God.

Boxers or Briefs?

Yeah Morgan Freeman a man of faith.  Faith in Science.

Kind of ironic that the guy who fits the god role best is an Atheist....

I'd rather have Richard Dawkins as god, to be honest. Or perhaps James Randi.