Are Atheists using Intellectually Dishonest Arguments?

[Jenny A]

Thanks for proving my point.

Nope. Because you're still the dickhead here for irrelevant reasons, and the fact you have an imaginary friend is just a fact.... I mean, you are a theist right? And the God you believe in is imaginary and childish right? And you do have a relationship with him like you would a friend right?

Changing the name of someone else's imaginary friend doesn't make a person a dick. If I had an imaginary friend called Alf and you insisted on calling him Benny, you wouldn't be a dick just because I was a moron who had never grown up. Who cares what I called my imaginary friend, it wouldn't make you a dick for being unable to resist having a little harmless fun with my unbelievable idiocy.

Theism is too cheap to cheapen.

Sorry, but this is one that bothers me. If you really had an imaginary friend named Alf, whom you really believed in, it would be cruel for someone else to insist on calling him Benny. It's argument by ridicule. It rather reminds me of the arguments over the meaning of the word "atheist" in which people who are not atheist, insist that their usage is correct.

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Pretty long winded about something you claim not to care about.

Oh I do care, just not so about the underlying god claim. What I do care about is the results of having a bunch of people walking around making decisions based on their belief in and claim to understand the will of god. I particularly care if if that beleif drives public policies I think are wrong.