The nature of evidence

[bennyboy]

I will prove my atheist claim.

"I don't believe in gods." is my claim.

My evidence is that I'm an atheist.

That's the only particular atheist claim I make.

Practically anything else you're asking is covered by science, not atheism.

No, your claim is "Christianity is a lie" (and not only, also Islam, Judaism and the other religions of the world) and that needs evidence. If you are calling someone a liar you should be based on something, right?

Christianity is a lie because its most central tenets are founded on a person doing things that people are not able to do.  It's a lie because it claims we've been saved, when anyone can look around the world and see that we haven't been.  It's a lie because it asserts that an all-good, all-knowing, all-powerful God exists, when babies die painful deaths every couple of minutes.

So I'll say it. . . Christianity is a lie.  It's a social club, a tool of control of the weak-minded and gullible, and most importantly, a vehicle for self-delusion.  It gives a promise of wealth when one is poor, a promise of freedom when one is enslaved, and a promise of immortality when one's days are numbered.

And the evidence for all this?  A book, a bunch of people with feelings, and religious institutions which pretend to act as intermediaries between those who are oppressed and the One who is meant to have liberated them thousands of years ago.

And the motivator for belief? A threat of infinite suffering should one dare to think rather than blindly to believe, taught to children too innocent and gullible to know what assholes their parents are being by taking parenting shortcuts-- demanding obedience under fear of threats rather than actually teaching kids about the real world. In a sane world, this kind of indoctrination would be labeled what it really is: pyschological torture and child abuse.

Lies.  Lies, lies lies lies lies.

LIES.

There.  Not only have I claimed Christianity is a collection of lies, I've outlined my basis for believing so.  Your turn.