My favorite atheist is no longer an atheist, but the next one I really admire is Richard Dawkins. I've seen him debate some Christians.
He seems like he's really good with kids. He seems really healthy mentally, seems very kind, thoughtful and rational. He appears in my opinion to be more healthy mentally and emotionally than the God I read about, especially in the Old Testament... He also seems to have a better head on his shoulders than a lot of the religious people I meet, and seems peaceful, calm, and collected.
I could never be an atheist again, It was very unhealthy for me,but I find atheists to typically be very thoughtful, and surprisingly less judgemental, less bigoted, less self-righteous, and more rational than many of the religious people I've met online and offline.
I've met atheists that follow the Golden Rule better than so many Christians, and I believe God will reward them on Judgement Day...as Christ said, "what you did for the least of my people you did for me, come inherit your Eternal reward."
I admire that atheists can show charity to people with no belief that they will receive any reward from it from some higher power.
There were many such acts of Charity and kindness that I never would have performed if I didn't think it was pleasing some invisible entity that's greater than myself.
Although I would like to see everybody (especially atheists) enlightened, I totally respect where they're at. Perhaps I'm the one who is delusional for wanting to pray all the time, and they are the ones who are sane.
I don't think they are to blame for being atheist...because to many people, it seems like God simply isn't there, that God doesn't care about them. There's so much Scandal, division, and confusion amongst religious people as well.
If God would speak clear messages that all people could hear , and if there were people doing the works that Jesus Promised his followers would do, I don't think there would be any more atheists.
