My tag line about CFI's leadership arose when Ron made some public statements that I thought were ill-advised, foolish and antithetical to this group's interests if it hopes to be taken seriously by a larger audience. It might have had to do with blasphemy day or some other similar event, as I recall. My point is that for a group of people who say we don't believe in a god, we sure spend a lot of time talking about it, and we do it ineffectively and counterproductively. There are plenty of things we can say about theism but we should pick our spots intelligently and not focus so much on what we don't believe that we lose sight of what we are for. Unfortunately, that is what has happened here, in my view.
I appreciate your objectiveness. Most people that I have come across, be they Jewish, Chrisitian, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, believe anything that they here.
I often wonder why people dont try to verify and study for themselves things that they have heard. Even more baffling is how people try to make judgements on things and situations that they dont know.
Its like what an Arabic proverb : “Saying I don't know is half of the knowledge."
Prophet Muhhamed (PBUH) has a saying
"It is enough (to make) a man a liar if he speak everything he hears"
Interesting read related to that can be seen here
http://muslimmatters.org/2011/06/28/saying-“i-don’t-know"-is-half-of-knowledge/