Atheism As Mental Defiance

Discover magazine has published a fascinating article on atheism and its possible correlation with high functioning autism. People in our society who are less willing to succomb to the social pressure of religion probably do have a greater tendency to focus on things and ideas rather than people (austistic tendency). Personally, on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being extreme autism or introvertion; 10 being extremely social or extrovertion), this blogger considers himself to be a 3.