Exposing the Intellectual Bankruptcy of Atheists Criticizing Religion

[drfuzzy]

The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart as well as The Last Superstition by the same author of the article linked to in the OP, a former atheist himself, show just how intellectually bankrupt atheism is. The former even prompted an atheist reviewer to title his review “The one theology book all atheists really should read.” In comparison, books by atheist authors, and I've read several, are extremely puerile and ill-informed—even those written by former evangelists. Virtually every argument posed in this forum and 99.9999% of of those posed by atheist authors are category errors. 

“Where's the evidence?” means “What empirical empirical evidence do you have?” If atheists knew just how silly a question that is, they'd hide their faces in shame. Asking for physical evidence of a universal principle or Spirit is illogical and plainly the result of that category error. Whether it's an attempt at parody like the FSM or something relatively more intelligent like comparing God to a microscopic leprechaun, it's the same thing. People who pose those kinds of arguments are really just putting their ignorance on display. And they do so proudly because they imagine it to be clever.

Ah, but you just admitted that you are making a claim for a "universal principle" (nope . . . laws of the universe can and have been measured and identified) or "Spirit" - - (THAT'S the one!) is illogical and a category error.  Precisely.  Because there IS NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE that anything such as "spirit" or "deity" or ghost, or angel, or devil, or any disembodied entity exists.  And that is the very basis of the atheist stance.  No verifiable evidence exists.

We are asked to accept myths, fairy tales, anecdotes from personal experience, philosophical musings, and none of that qualifies as evidence.