Theists- do you believe without evidence?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

And, unlike all the "I used to be an atheist but then I found Jesus Christ yay!" horseshitters on this forum.
This was a forum I ran years ago under the username "Weltall". All the posts, made with that name, are mine. So, you can see that I am not talking out of my ass when I say that I once was dumb enough to be a Christian and believe the same stupid things you believe, today.

You could not have believed as I do or you would not have rejected Christ, this is simply and necessarily true.

No it isn't, it's nonsense.

What you're basically doing there is elevating yourself to the moral high ground (which is imagined) over Ryan by appealing to the lowest common denominator; that you're right and everything that conflicts with you is necessarily wrong. This, based on nothing but emotive reasoning and a level of indoctrination that can only be guessed.

Speaking on behalf (but not for, an important distinction) of everyone who has both sought to and managed to disassociate themselves from the religion that they were taught to follow, just, fuck you man. It's views such as the one that you propagate in your post above that leads to be people being branded apostates and ostracized, maybe even killed, for not believing in the same deity as their peers around them.

Not often do I swear at posters, but here I think it's totally warranted.