Atheist Etiquette

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I've recently come to a realization that it might work against you socially, if you ever admit that you're indeed a vehemently gnostic atheist. I've personally made this mistake while interacting with a former priest. You see, the problem lies in the fact that with this revelation, if you do choose to divulge, is a total antonym to a believer's sense and purpose of life.

With one comment, you're implying that his/her faith is imaginary, intangible, inconsequential, and arbitrary. Human beings are selfish and possessive when it comes to their ideas and beliefs just as with their material owning. And the only way that you can take away these beliefs held so dearly to their heart is by stating that these are all fairy-tale musings, entirely flimsy.

I'm beginning to realise that this flimsy reality is created out of choice and inability to comprehend the purpose of their existence. Clinging on to reasons which are just manufactured thought patterns that are taught to young ones and disseminated one generation at a time.

You have the freedom to think for yourself, but what I'm saying is that you should reign it in and lean towards describing yourself as an Agnostic Atheist whenever an opportunity presents itself to spell out your ideology of belief, or non-belief in this case.