Religious friend dumps pile of shit in my facebook inbox. Too thick to tear apart.

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Yeah, belief that there is no God is known informally as strong atheism, and it's a perfectly respectable and defensible position. It is "just a belief", but it's a rational examination of what is very likely to be the case. It's not based on emotions, logical fallacies or weird "personal experiences" that you've assigned massive significance to. I go into more detail about all this stuff on my website here.

When a claim is incredibly fantastical, and the evidence for the claim is zero, then believing the claim is actually false is sensible. If a bunch of new evidence suddenly turned up, then there's nothing to stop you re-evaluating the claim. But the people who are claiming it is true can present no good reason why they think it's true, so it's more likely they are mistaken or don't actually know what they're even talking about.

You could ask Mr Weed Head to define what exactly this God thing is meant to be (not things it has supposedly done, awards it has given itself and attributes it doesn't have) and how you can tell it apart from nothing. I've never had a sensible answer to that. Or why I should care if there is such a thing.