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I've downloaded The Irrational Atheist, and will read it (or at least start it) after the book I'm reading now. (Something from Harlequin which I forget the name of.)
I suspect I will not like it. I am very much not an atheist, but I also find no appeal in Christian apologetics, which most anti-atheist arguments seem to be. The ones I've seen so far, seem to make leaps with their "logic"--they go from "the atheists ignore some data" to "therefore, a single all-powerful creator made the universe and is watching people."
And they often claim that evolution is incompatible with theism.
Not saying this one has that, just that I've seen that argued in the past.
I have found this discussion remarkably polite, with diverse viewpoints able to discuss their beliefs without getting rude or vile, as is often the case in discussions of different religions. And for "why there are so many atheists/agnostics here"... there aren't. This seems like a very normal distribution of faiths to me. Those supposedly 80% who "believe in a god?" The majority of them aren't interested in discussions of religion. That leaves a small fraction of them, and *all* atheists & agnostics, who are--and the only reason the atheists & agnostics are, is because they get religion shoved in their faces on a regular basis.
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