Is atheism self-contradictory ?

[bennyboy]

Hello everyone ,

This is my first thread on the forum, and I hope to get convincing responses to a question I stumbled upon concerning atheism.

Assuming no God can be proven by logic, how can one trust his judgment about religions/existence of god if his mind itself cannot be trusted ? How can I trust any atheist/agnostic's claim that all kinds of proofs that have been given by scholars or philosophers of religion throughout history are false ?

Therefore, rejecting belief is in itself belief that your mind possesses some kind of an absolute power that makes you distinguish between good arguments and fallacies. I don't want to talk about evolution in this thread, but since the brain is the product of random alterations of our genome, how can it be trustworthy ? 

You'll say to me that this power is simply logial reasoning, but, you see, logic is based on axioms, i.e. basic FACTS taken for granted. What are you taking for granted to refute any logical argument whatsoever ? And why do you TRUST your thinking in the first place ?

You've got it all backwards, because you think there's some kind of rational debate happening one way or the other. But nobody here is really going out and attempting to demonstrate that God does not exist.

If you are sure God exists, then fine.  If you want me to believe God exists, you'll have to demonstrate that God is more than an idea.  That's your burden to carry.

If I want to enter your church and make people people God does NOT exist, then the burden of proof will be on me.  But I don't care enough about churchgoers or the God idea to do that. I'm simply not invested enough in that issue to do more than make a couple replies on a forum like this one.