@credis it is very interesting that you think that only believers have to prove the existence of supernatural beings, when scientific evidence has merely only proved that there is no scientific evidence for supernatural beings SO FAR.  It has yet to definitively <strong>disprove</strong> the existence of supernatural beings.  There is a lot of physical and scientific evidence to support the non-existence of supernatural beings, but not enough to be able to definitively disprove it.  Until there is a definitive theory of everything from the scientific world, the atheist community also has a task to disprove it definitively.  This is a more rigorous analysis of the evidence on the table than your absolutist "belief" of no supernatural beings.  Where is the <em>definitive</em> proof?

As a mathematician by training, I can only subscribe to an agnostic stance in good conscience, at least until either side proves their point definitively, which honestly doesn't look like it will happen in my lifetime with the disagreement within the scientific community regarding new theoretical divides.  For my purposes, I assume there are no supernatural beings, because that has very little to do with how or why I believe I should behave to others in the world around me.  As Richard Dawkins says many times in the <a href="http://bit.ly/448Ni5" rel="nofollow">God Delusion</a> (and I quite agree), a person does not need to be a person of faith to be a moral or ethical person. My motivation for treating others in a certain way has nothing whatsoever to do with "getting into heaven" and I suspect even for people of faith having a moral code of any kind has little or nothing to do with that reasoning.

This does not mean people aren't allowed to believe there are no supernatural beings, but it also means ridiculing people of faith is rather meaningless also.  Neither has the definitive higher ground in absolute physical proof.

I personally think that Jesus' teachings from the gospel are ideals I would like to incorporate in my life, but it does not mean I believe in any type of supernatural being.  It just so happens I like what the gospels say.  I am not a big fan of the rest of the bible with all its violence, although I wouldn't be opposed to learning more about it from a theological perspective because I do not have a problem with putting my individual belief system "under test".

That does not mean I think people who believe in supernatural beings are below me, however, because I have worked with some amazing engineers in my career so far who have been believers and also have an amazing capacity for rational thought at work.  Without their professional work products or academic research the world would be a lesser place than it is today.

One last note: if you thought "blogs were on-line journals" then does that make you an online journal voyeur?  Or did you actually consciously fully comprehend that blogs were public, therefore if others were reading it (including yourself) then it's purpose would have been to share thoughts and ideas with others?