So what % of atheist are evil people?

Stealing is obviously immoral as well as illegal. There are obviously better channels to pursue to feed those starving children. Remember, it's not your fault that the child is starving, but don't commit a crime to solve such a situation, you can empathize and maybe even feel sorry for the child but don't steal. Look for alternative ways. There are many ways and enough resources around the world to end child hunger but people just don't care enough to solve this epidemic. Maybe if Christians would stop giving pastors 10% of their earnings to buy mansions and instead think of ways to feed these starving children with that money, just maybe we could be on to something. But unfortunately, the stupid bible tells them to give their church (read pastors) their money and they are either too lazy or too brainwashed to think outside the box and come up with ways to help the needy instead of buying kanyari a range rover or kyuna a mansion. Problem with religious people is they don't think rationally. Blind faith suppresses their common sense. That child will continue to starve as they drive past him from church on sunday morning where they were entertained by actor/conman/thug Kanyari for a fee of 10% of their monthly earnings. Very unfortunate. Sometimes I wonder why religious people are so ignorant. Does religion really dumb down people that much?

'devout' Atheist? is that paradox? devout means 'totally committed to a cause or belief'... perhaps what you meant was 'a devout anti-theist'. Since you are actually an Atheist.... to all other Gods but yours! How devout can you be to not believing in Buddha? Or the Gods of the Aboriginal tribes of Australia or Traditional American Indian Gods? Perhaps - if you are anti-God's of Aboriginal tribes of Micronesia - you would be an anti-theist.

There is a gospel extravaganza coming up at the Citam-Karen featuring the legendary Don Moen.

The reason you are reading this here is because a group of friends, all atheists, are attending. Apparently they love Don Moen from their theist days.

For the record am not an atheist. Though my take on all religions is that they are outright frauds.

Lesson to @Ham : You can be an atheist and still find some religious stuff cool. No need for hating religious folks. What they need is love.

Lesson to religious fanatics : You don't push your faith to non-believers. You pull them to your faith. Its all about the packaging.

Tell people they can't have something and they will want it more. Abolishing religion would have the opposite effect, not what the OP thinks...

I can imagine that the wealth being enjoyed now may have been caused by religion, and as a consequence of wealth, indulgence may have been caused, which then caused irreligion enjoying wealth.

Now consider the 'wealth': If in the base year wealth was growing by the factor x and in subsequent years wealth grew by factors that were progressively less than x, such that by the time of appraisal the wealth factor has reduced to a factor approaching zero; wouldn't there be a case for saying irreligion causes poverty, even despite the fact that the measure of wealth is high relative to other entities?

For me this implies that materialism can't be a basis of evaluating religion against irreligion. Simply because it would be met by an infinite regress clouded by uncertainty of what's to be meseaured.

Finally, why is it taking some of us so long to discover that atheism has flourished most where it's been a religion?

Humans can't exist without religion.

@Ngalaka, what I mean is... We see @burglar talk evil of other religions. And if he can learn from your post, he should now realize that we should not point fingers at the religions... because as much as we have bad Muslims, the Christians have bad Christians, and the atheists have bad atheists.

If we take for example Hitler. He killed 6 million people, 2nd world war is the result of Hitler's activities and millions people died. He was a Christian. Of course we would not judge Jesus (peace be upon him) by the behaviour of some few bad Christians who do not represent the teachings of Jesus (peace be upon him). Similarly, we cannot blame the whole community because of some Muslims who are not representing the principles of the religion.

In short, in every community there are black sheep but on the basis of these black sheep we can't say that the whole community is wrong.

and i said I'm glad to see people dialogue with open mind and open heart because an open heart-mind can receive something.

With the positive spin you have given it, sounds ok...
The highlighted part had stricken me as loaded though.

All in all....Cheers brother.

I hope it is some movie they are acting