When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?

[paulpablo]

Obviously this thread involves some sort of personal argument since I can see that the first posts involve statements like "You fucking dolt bullshit raaaaaaggghghghg ...."

Anyway my personal response to this is that I don't say that because I can't see proof of god this god doesn't exist.

All I say is that I see no evidence of god therefore I reject any belief in god.  I think god and religions are manmade constructs.

There might be something out there we have no proof of, it might even be a god, but I just see no proof of it.

Thoughts on the response?

It's the same as the OP. You say you see no evidence. It's an open question whether this is because there is no evidence, or because you simply haven't looked. 

One way to show your atheism is not a result of ignorance is to grapple with the provided evidence.

But it's also a way to spend your life grappling with millions of false claims about god.

I'm not just making an offhand remark or a simple joke when I say that.  It's simply like one fire brigade trying to put out every fire in the world, with new forest fires starting everyday.

Practically speaking even if I set out on a new mission to tackle every claim of evidence that there is a god, abandoned my family, friends and newborn baby and job and focused on this one goal, I still would probably not have tackled even 10% of the claims made, and it's more than likely the 10% I did try and tackle would still be sure they were right even if they were wrong, and new religious claims would have been made by the time of my death, and entirely new religions created with new cult leaders.

I won't deny I ignore things and I'm full of ignorance.  Ignorance is a by-product of focus. Normal functional people have to ignore things, it's a survival skill to decide what to ignore and what to focus on in life.  If you paid attention and gave merit to every scam, false advertisement, cult in the world you simply wouldn't have time to live.

I've been raised with the "evidence" in the form of the bible, rejected that, become acquainted with the quran, same bullshit, and I see a lot of different claims on here that are either easily proven wrong or so vague that that can't be proven wrong or right and pretty much don't mean anything.