(March 20, 2011 at 10:43 pm)sun Wrote: To be an atheist is to accept things as they are and not to dwell in fantasy. Religious scholars have to explain why those who strive succeed and not those who pray? A farmer who strives will succeed, a pirate who strives will succeed, a land grabber who strives will succeed, but if you go to the beach and start praying to god you will not succeed.To be an atheist is to reject theism on either grounds of: there is no god or there is no reason to believe that there is a god; nothing more/less. It says nothing about whether atheists are fantasists or not, there are some atheists for example who believe in ID (except it is design without a god). There are many arguments which support atheism, some (but not all/most) directly involving engaging with theism on its own turf. I see no reason to accept your argument, although I personally believe the strongest arguments for atheism are those which involve evidence from outside of theology.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
