Why do some atheists care that there are theists?

[IronUnkind]

I suspect that you would automatically demote someone to a lower intellectual status based upon his espousal of religious belief. I know you are capable of such errors, based upon your belief that Leibniz's dice error somehow compromises his obvious genius. Is religion the reason you left Ramanujan off of your ten best list?

[David Sklansky]

"I suspect that you would automatically demote someone to a lower intellectual status based upon his espousal of religious belief. I know you are capable of such errors, based upon your belief that Leibniz's dice error somehow compromises his obvious genius. Is religion the reason you left Ramanujan off of your ten best list?"

Both guys easily make it into my top 5% list. And I have little doubt that Ramanujan would would never buy into Judeo Christian myths, especially with a little training in physics.

[David Sklansky]

"I know you are capable of such errors, based upon your belief that Leibniz's dice error somehow compromises his obvious genius."

I was picking the ten smartest ever out of a hundred candidates with little difference to choose from. That error is glaring enough to drop him off the list. Do you think there is any chance Gauss could have thought something similar?

[IronUnkind]

I doubt it, but I also would have doubted that Leibniz could have made the error had it not been so apparent that he, in fact, did make it.