"The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever"

[Simon Moon]

Atheism, for the vast majority of atheists, is not an assertion. It is a response to a claim. 

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.

Oh blood f'n hell!

I am justified to continue my disbelief in the existence of gods based on the continued lack of demonstrable, verifiable, falsifiable evidence, reasoned argument and valid and sound logic to support theist's claims that a god does exists. Pretty much the exact same reasons I disbelieve: alien abductions, witch craft, bigfoot, Tarot card reading, dowsing, talking to the dead, etc, etc, ad nauseam.

The reason why you continue to get "nothing" as a response, is because you continue to not provide us with any evidence for your god claims that will pass the above criteria.

Once again, i am not claiming, with absolute certainty, that a god does not exist. My position is that a case for the existence of a god has never met its burden of proof. As long as the claim that god exists does not meet its burden of proof, my atheism will continue.

But you haven't really been getting "nothing" as a response, have you? What you've been getting, over and over, is requests to provide your evidence for the existence of the god you claim exists. If it meets the above criteria, I will be compelled, by my skepticism and intellectual honesty, to accept, (tentatively) your claim is true.

It is becoming more  and more obvious, that you are intellectually dishonest. Or maybe just dense. You pick.