Requiring empirical proof for every belief that you hold is one thing. Being a complete ass by misrepresenting someone else's beliefs is quite another. Atheism does not require assholes.
Sadly, it appears the once prestigious Washington Post is selling access to key Obama Administration figures as well as access to their own reporting staff. A recent flier sent out by their marketing department to lobbyists shows that something is not right at the Post.
1) Why would the Obama administration allow its staff to be pimped out like this?
2) Why would a supposedly objective newspaper have this much access to our president's administration?
3) Why would a respectable newspaper pimp its contacts out like this for money?
This NYTimes article highlights how a report from two EPA career employees was suppressed because its findings were contrary to the Obama Administration's stance on climate change. The report found that the EPA used old data when developing climate change policies and that current data shows world temperatures are falling despite an increase in carbon emissions.
A news story highlighting the effective efforts of China and Iran to control communications in their countries. The most shocking thing is that Western companies are the one's providing the technology.