Atheists don't appear humble only to religious followers. Atheists don't seem humble because in most cases they are not humble to religious people. This is usually because they think religion is completely ridiculous and doesn't deserve the respect or tolerance it thinks it does. So it appears to not be humble. But this behavior is justified because religion itself is not justified in it's demand for the respect and tolerance. But it's funny because most major religious leaders are arrogant and cocky, yet pretend and claim to be humble. And see that's one thing you shouldn't do. You shouldn't claim you yourself is humble. That is for others to decide. That's like going around and saying "I'm gangsta!" That's something you have to prove and for others to determine. That's why you never hear a real gangster saying "I'm gangsta." In the same way, no would should say "I'm humble." Anyways most religious leaders aren't truly humble, and here is one major reason why: They are completely certain that their belief is the truth. Being skeptical is humble because it isn't absolute. Most real atheists don't think they are absolutely right, they just believe that most other things are wrong (primarily religious ideas). There is a big difference there. It's humble to say "I don't know" or "I'm not sure," it's not humble to say the opposite.

But you may say "Nuh uh, atheists always think they're right, always!" Atheists seem this way because they only think they are "righter" than religion (because religion has no foundation upon which they can claim truth). Most real Atheists do not claim to have the answers for sure. They simply see themselves as on the right trail (or at least on the most reasonable trail) leading to the truth (which is actually indefinable, and again you should know that atheists for the most part don't believe in "Truth" they believe in facts and they believe in getting close to the truth using empirical evidence). But see, this is where you religious people fail. You think you have the answers and falsely parade them about as truth. But see, atheists may parade, but they only parade the evidence (setting them close to the truth, but not achieving the actual truth). That's how atheists can remain humble and still seem so damn arrogant. Because they have a magic tool called evidence. Evidence does not equal truth. But facts require evidence. An accumulation of facts equals the proximity of truth. Therefore, proclaiming truth is not humble, but there is nothing wrong with proclaiming factual evidence. Religious folks don't have evidence, therefore they seem straight arrogant off the bat and there is no middle ground because you can't proclaim the truth without factual evidence and somehow see yourself as humble.

Because of what I said above ^^^ You see you got it all wrong. I'm fine with someone believing in something that I don't. It all depends on the legitimacy by which they get to that belief. There are logical boundaries to securing a justifiable belief. If you ignore these boundaries, your belief loses legitimacy and validity, and therefore respect. There are plenty of other beliefs on the same level as atheism that I respect, because they have legitimate means to get to that justifiable belief. Without that, your beliefs aren’t valid.