In answer to Dianeva's question, I don't think the connotation of atheist disables it from remaining the dichotomous counter-part of the word theist. Etymologically speaking they would be, but in reality the usage of them has changed. I find most people that label themselves atheist or even just skeptical are often very clingy to the current cultural understanding of reality. While I'm willing to allow these thinkers to have the word atheist, I still retain that skepticism implies doubt in what is commonly believed, too, and not just doubt in the far-fetched.
But this is really just semantics. To speak more accurately, there are a group of people on this website that are unwilling to entertain possibility when it contradicts their current model of reality. They do not want to challenge their model of reality because they've managed to cling to something that makes sense, and so they simply judge and troll all ideas outside this narrow scope of possibility which they erroneously call being rational. But this group is just as small as this forum's riddle speaking astronauts that left reason behind long ago. The majority are neither opposed to questioning their beliefs nor opposed to thinking logically.
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