Why You Should Be Atheist

[Vincenzo Vinny G.]

Are you requesting that I do them because you want to know? Then phrase it as a request.

Yes.

Please, if you believe a god exists:

Define it.
Explain why you believe it.
Provide evidence for it.

I would appreciate it.

I've tried to discuss my views before, but I usually hit a wall of ignorance with many of the atheists around here. They lack familiarity with science, philosophy, epistemology, logic, mathematics, and many of the fields that my views build on. Given their lack of familiarity, their responses amount to hysterical skepticism firing blindly in all directions, like one recent poster who dismissed logic as a means of arriving at knowledge "as a house of cards". Doesn't strike me as a worthwhile pursuit unless people are capable of exercising critical thinking skills and looking new things up to learn about them.

Explaining the rigorous use of reason to an atheist is like explaining quantum mechanics to the amish.