If these resident theists really talk to god..

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I only wish that were universally true, and it probably does not apply to you. Some atheists are simply contrarians and/or angry at their religious upbringing. No evidence would suffice to make them believe anymore than some believers will drop their faith in response to hack objections to become atheists.

We can both go around spinning each other's position any way we like, Chad. What matters is whether evidence can actually be presented or not, and I've never seen any that points to a specific god, even if it points to one at all. Now, you can point to me and say that I'm just being contrary, but that's not much of an argument. As I've said in the past, if that was actually true it would be very easy for you guys to utterly remove the credibility of us contrarian atheists by simply continuing to prove your god exists, and yet the atheist community continues to grow.

So go ahead. I don't find this reinterpreting of the motives of dissenters to be a terribly convincing argument from either side, though.