(December 25, 2015 at 6:12 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(December 25, 2015 at 6:01 pm)Delicate Wrote: I'm not denying anything people believe, per se. I accept that the position they stake out in public is "lack of evidence"Atheism, for the vast majority of atheists, is not an assertion. It is a response to a claim.
I'm just rejecting the undefended asserted redefinition of atheism and giving my reasons for it.
I suppose I'm also pointing out the hypocrisy of people who lack belief and yet claim God doesn't exist. This serves as evidence that what people believe, and what they SAY they believe might not be the same thing.
Theists claim that a god exists. Atheists simply are unconvinced by theist's arguments.
So, did you ever stop to consider you are arguing against a straw man of your own construction? Nah, you're way too intelligent to do that...
If you construe it as a response, my question is, what justifies the response?
The answer I've gotten so far is: Nothing.