[tunesmith]

Here's how I see it.

Belief in provably true: science Belief in provably false: willful ignorance Belief in things not provably true or false: religion

Atheism - or at least the evangelical sort - seems to be the belief that others should not believe in something if it isn't provably true.

Sometimes it is useful to believe in conjectures, for pragmatic reasons. Sometimes it is useful to believe in religion, for emotional reasons.

It's true that some of what is ascribed to "religion" is actually willful ignorance. That is appropriate to combat, in my view. However, I don't believe it's appropriate to combat the belief in things not provably true or false. And that is a common reason that religious people reject the arguments of atheism.