[mrkeen]

I will try harder to connect the dots more explicitly.

Do you think an idea being 'self-centered' has any bearing on whether that idea is true or false?

What are the typical atheist arguments from Dawkins, etc.?

Why are they not actual thinkers?

[keiferski]

1. Maybe I was unclear. To me the idea that human beings are somehow the most intelligent life form in existence, is only an idea that can come from a very self-obsessed mind. This is a common attitude for people, as a society species wide thing. So I find the typical atheist attitude toward “higher powers” to be very lacking. Agnosticism is a much more rational position.

2 and 3: I’m not going to answer these for you, just google it for 5 minutes or ask an LLM. No one with knowledge of the philosophy of religion takes the New Atheists very seriously. They were pop culture writers with mostly bad or oversimplified arguments.