Strong Atheism starts from faith

[theVOID]

You are an atheist - you cannot know. I am a theist - I cannot know. that doesn't change the fact of our positions... you that there is no God, and me that there is.

This is precisely Adrian's definition, and I'm going with that.

That is akin to saying "I don't know therefore i believe", which is illogical.

What i am arguing, and what you still haven't addressed, is the proposition that the only rational position is to withhold judgement indefinitely because without evidence, logical or empirical, there is no reason to hold a positive belief in either the existence or the non-existence of God.

Requiring evidence is totally scornworthy. Sorry.

But evidence is required to discern between the two options in the Dichotomy, those two being "God exists" and "God does not exist". Without the evidence to suggest which of the two is true there is NO REASON to assume one position over the other, which is why withholding judgement is the only reasonable position to take.

You, as a Christian, have by definition made not one, but two assumptions, despite the lack of evidence for your positions. 1) You have assumed that God does exist and 2) You have decided that he is the Christian god. You have no evidence to either 1) Support the proposition that God exists, or 2) Support the proposition that God is the Christian god.

Belief

1 : a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing
2 : something believed; especially : a tenet or body of tenets held by a group
3 : conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon especially when based on examination of evidence

The point I'm trying to make by being accurate in my definition is that something required to be unknown is weakened by being known.

Again, that is illogical.

1) God is not required to be unknown, this is the opposite of what the Christian faith teaches. They explicitly state that God operates in a way that can be known, through Prayer, Miracles, Revelation etc.

2) If something is unknown, it is not weakened by being known, it is strengthened from being a position of blind faith to a reasonable position to hold.

If you separate faith with the rational subset that requires it then of course you can end up with some very silly ideas as you've shown. I don't have to show you how it works because you're already deliberately trying not to see the example in front of your face.

1) You haven't provided a shred of reasoning for you claims.

2) I am not deliberately not trying to not see anything, it is counter to my own standards. I have asked you time and time again if you can provide logical reasoning for not only 1) why God exists, but also 2) He is the Christian god.

Thus far you have failed entirely to provide any such reasoning for his existence and until such evidence is provided and is shown to be valid then i will continue to withhold judgement on the existence of God.

Don't think i don't appreciate the discussion, I do, but I am at a loss as to why you think it is more reasonable / Just as reasonable to take a position on the unknown than it is to withhold judgement.