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Arcane. Rather than disentangle your responses, I'll try and round up your statements:
Atheism is the choice to reject theism. One becomes an atheist only by actively, rationally, rejecting theism.
After choosing atheism, a rational person will explore that choice and actually become:
the very same "type of atheist" as me. one who challenged the status quo, and found that it wasn't worth the thought. I came to my decision through what I guess would be called soul searching. I challenged religion, and it failed me. So, I lost all faith, and went the route of not believing in anything without concrete evidence. Make of that what you will, but its free thinking that brought me to atheism. It was my rational, logical side that disregarded religion. Correlation, not causation.
Atheism is a correlative thing, not a consequential thing. Any perceived correlations among atheists are independent of atheism.
The choice to not believe in a god does not cause anything. There are no standard atheist morals. Atheists do not develop in any particular way due to their atheism.
Atheism is a consequence, not a cause. It is a consequence of rational thinking, the exact opposite of religious thinking.
1) This is an undistorted picture defining atheism, applicable to all atheists?
2) Since I've been raised atheist and remain atheist, have never felt a need to reject religion (rather it intrigues me), and let's face it: I'm not the most rational tool in this drawer...
how does your description of atheism apply to me?