Theism is literally childish

[Amarok]

That alone would not make it 'delusional' to believe in supernatural phenomena whether it's ESP, ghosts, alien abductions, NDE's or any other claim for which a skeptic does not accept as having sufficient evidence.

Not what the skeptic accepts . What their is no objective evidence of period .

Just because those types of phenomena cannot be easily tested in a laboratory under controlled conditions doesn't mean it is irrational to think they could be real.

Then you have no real standard of fact from falsehood . 

The larger point is that atheists putting theistic beliefs in the same category as a serious mental illness is a mild form of anti-religious bigotry.

Nope criticizing beliefs as crazy is not bigotry

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Bravo, Steve.  Funny how the self-proclaimed defenders of rationality will give kudos to such obvious drivel. It's almost as if saying stupid bad things about believers is reflexively accepted by many atheists. How can we even begin to have reasoned discussions with people lacking the ability to be selfcritical?

Steve did not disprove shit . None of this was drivel. Your whining projections do nothing PoeWooter.

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No one wishes mental illness, just like no one wishes to have been gay.

Nope many people perfectly happy being gay

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As for Alpha's ignorance  about abiogenesis that would take forever to correct but seven  points .

1. Were the hell are they trying to create homeostasis in a lab . let alone millions of experiments .

2. Uri miller was not trying to reproduce abiogenesis  regardless of what the popular press kept saying . 

3. The only difference between animate and inanimate matter . Is a single chemical process we understand quite well .     But can't replicate as it is beyond our current abilities . 

4. Uri millers experiments have been redone under updated conditions and got even better results . 

5. Time is not equal to magic . 

6. Abiogenesis by any current understanding would only happen once .

7. Evolution is occurring all the time

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As for the idea the universe came from nothing . I never said it does only that there is no reason to believe the universe came from anywhere. And no science does not say the universe had a beginning that's apologist crap.

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All wars between theists have ultimately had religious undertones .

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And yet they one and all believe that we should love the Lord above all things and our neighbor as oneself. Funny, how that works.

A vague weak definition and statement .

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As for Roads silly argument that considering theism (a BELIEF in god ) is delusional is the same as saying god does not exist this simply is not so . 

One can  argue that to the atheists current knowledge theism seems indistinguishable from delusion. While maintaining a lack of belief . 

Same as the fact that if theists were delusional that does not disprove god .