(January 8, 2016 at 2:29 pm)athrock Wrote:(January 8, 2016 at 1:34 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: The only belief all atheists share in common is the belief that you theists have presented no compelling reasons to believe in a god or gods. That isn't faith, despite your desperate pretense that all people are in the same leaky epistemological boat as you. Do you get that, or should I use smaller words, Sport?
Which is to say that you, as an individual, have not yet heard a compelling argument for theism. Maybe you never will.
But that is NOT the same thing as saying that compelling arguments do not exist, is it? After all, there are lots of atheists who finally run across the one with their name on it...
No, I have not encountered a compelling reason to believe and neither (by definition) have any other people who are, at this time, atheists. Of course, there are former atheists who found or experienced something that caused them to change their minds. By the same token, there are former theists who now say they saw through the "reasons" they previously had for believing.