Well said. There’s also something about a certain type of atheist who confidently voices their refusal to believe in anything unless empirical evidence, that I personally find mildly irritating.

I appreciate critical thinking and I’m quite skeptical myself, but it’s that confident certainty that nothing that hasn’t been proven scientifically is real that slightly irks me.

It’s a mindset that seems to conveniently omit the possibility of future scientific discoveries and ‘unknown science’, and comes off in some as a somewhat smug, arrogant outlook that, somewhat ironically, can often be found in the blindly religious.