I consider the perfect intellectual point to be the point where I need believe nothing. My atheism is simply the denial of others unfounded assertions.

We are flawed as any other people and sometimes wrap ourselves up in active denial for reasons of defense or attack. But I think a majority of us are most comfortable at the point when we don’t have to claim believe in anything.

That zen state of no-belief is hard to attain in a complicated society but it is goal born out of hearing all sorts of proof only later to hear the slant that makes it sound like proof.

–Zafkiel