Indoctrination

[Simon Moon]

As soon as someone is able to meet their burden of proof to demonstrate that at least one god exists, I will no longer be an atheist.

Yeah this is just disingenuous. No amount of proof would be good enough for you. You fancy being an atheist too much.

So, you know me better than I know, myself. Talk about disingenuous...

I do not fancy being an atheist, I may, however fancy myself being a skeptic, though. It is my contention, that atheism is the natural result of correctly applying skepticism to the god claim.

I care if my beliefs are true, or at least likely to be true. We know the most consistently reliable method for accomplishing that goal. I want to have the most true beliefs as possible, and the least amount of false beliefs as possible. What I can't understand is why everyone does not want that?

I am completely opened to being convinced of any existential claim. I will accept the existence of gods, ghosts, alien abductions, telekinesis, etc, etc, as long as there is demonstrable, repeatable, falsifiable evidence to support them.

Without evidence for the existence of gods, what should be my justification to believe they exist?

The problem here is, not that my bar is set too high, it is that yours is set too low. And you can't even demonstrate the reliability of your 'method' you use to come to your beliefs. As far as I have been able to tell from your time here, is that you have no rhyme or reason for the things you believe, and the things you disbelieve.