(August 4, 2017 at 3:13 pm)Harry Nevis Wrote: Atheists get tired of hearing the same old debunked claims and arguments. We ask for evidence, we get unsubstantiated claims. We ask for outside corroboration, we get writers who may have used the word christian. We point out discrepancies in the bible, we're told we are reading it wrong. This has gone on for centuries. I feel safe in calling people who make these claims mistaken and, when they seem to be trying more to convince themselves of their "knowledge" of god, I feel safe in calling them crazy or something similar. All it would take to shut us up is objective, falsifiable evidence that points to no other explanation than your god. And so it goes...
After over a decade of being inundated with excuse after excuse for unsupported religious assertions, my tolerance for such assertions is now at zero. My patience is fading fast, too.
It should be painfully obvious by now that the believers preaching at us do not have the evidence that we are looking for. Whatever convinced them is simply not robust enough to convince us, and I for one am not going to lower my standards to give them even the slightest whiff of a benefit of a doubt.