(March 2, 2015 at 9:12 pm)Thoughtage Wrote: Which is why I am arguing against atheist faith.
I'm an atheist, and I have no faith. I agree that atheists ought to be completely faithless. Some make positive claims of gods not existing; I disagree with those claims for the reason that disproving a premise is exceedingly difficult unless internal contradictions can be demonstrated. I don't think those claims are based on faith, though, but rather a simple overstepping of evidence. The Christian conception of god is one which is riven with contradictions, so I'm perfectly comfortable asserting his absolute nonexistence; but that is not to say that I think all gods are equally fallacious. And such an assertion is not made out of faith, but rather out of an analysis of the characteristics imputed to such a deity.
(March 2, 2015 at 9:12 pm)Thoughtage Wrote: It's much more reason-able to just admit the simple truth. Nobody knows what does or doesn't form the foundation of all reality. We don't even know what the phrase "all of reality" refers to.
Atheism doesn't address this, and I haven't seen any atheist assert that all of reality is known or understood. Can you show us an atheist who claims to know "all of reality"?
In that sense, this rejoinder of yours is a strawman, to my eyes.