How to tell a real freethinker

[Esquilax]

I could go on, but the point is that real freethinkers include many highly intelligent and skeptical people who became Christians. They believe partly because they are skeptical of mindless skepticism, of the simplistic, illogical and gratuitous arguments that the Gospels are false records. They realize that the burden is on the critic to prove they are false. Calling people deluded or dishonest requires proof, especially when they had nothing to gain but persecution. (A historic fact).

Really? Really?

Despite the fact that everything we know about the universe around us points to the conclusion that space magic is impossible and that god has been remarkably silent since the invention of any kind of effective recording device, the burden of proof is on us?

If calling people deluded or dishonest requires proof... then do you not also have to provide proof that your shit it true before you can call us atheists deluded or dishonest, like you're doing right now? Especially when we atheists have nothing to gain but persecution (which is an actual fact, unlike your "historic one" that is still true today, also unlike yours.)

You seem to be saying that the burden of proof is circular: everyone has to prove everyone else wrong conclusively or else nobody can just call anyone else wrong. Why is it you feel that your religion is suddenly exempt from your own (flawed, insipid) logic?