Turning the tables on atheism

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I believe in fairies despite the fact that people who don’t believe in fairies have been pointing out to me my entire life that there is no evidence or good reason to believe in fairies. I believe in fairies anyway, therefore fairies exist.

And as you’ve already pointed out yourself, multiplying the number of entities that hold the belief does not increase the likelihood of it being true.

You're misstating the argument. It has nothing to do with proving the existence of anything, let alone the existence of God. It only deals with objections which attempt to show that theism is logically incoherent. Since there is no valid argument that theism is incoherent, we are left with the equally compelling choices of either take the easy way out of belief and say there is too much evil/God doesn't show himself/etc. or reconciliate belief - for which there are other arguments that are not the subject of this thread- with these weak objections. Since there are people who did the latter, atheism becomes unjustified.