Are those who don't honor logic deceitful egomaniacs?

[flofrog]

Sometimes I want to leave the "alternative" worlds behind simply because of the festering mess of dishonesty which so often forms the core of its fabric. Skeptics, by contrast, acknowledge that humans are flawed and science is messy and unfinished business. I usually find the atheists and skeptical humanists to be better people, simply put, because they have more in the way of basic honesty. But at the same time I'm always inwardly a mystic, and it sucks when there's little good exchange related to that.

This is so right on for me. My mother was a quiet atheist and I found it hard to find a more honest person. And it's true that there was a sort of nostalgia for other exchanges.