I am not sure if we have thicker skins. I think the attacks by the believers seem to us like arguments of children. We don't take them seriously. We have greater things to address. We just don't values those attacks.

i wouldn't want to generalize. while it would seem useful for us atheists to be able to let criticism of our unpopular ideas roll right off our backs, the truth is, people of all kinds of character can realize there are no gods, and the need to develop a thicker skin has not always results in such development. it's like my having grown up painfully shy but eager to express myself. that was pretty inconvenient for me lol.

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I suspect so..

I think open atheists, existing as we do in a majority theist society, are going to inherently tend to be overall tougher. But that is an artifact of our minority status at this time, not something inherent in atheism. There's nothing about lacking beliefs about deities that prevents someone from being a wuss.

Don't know if its thicker, but the religious seem overly thin-skinned to me.