(January 19, 2010 at 12:36 am)FaithvsFact Wrote: Once we've agreed on those two we'll continue.

I'll ignore this premise, and give you an answer anyway:
If there were no believers there would be no atheists. We would surely be talking about any other interesting matter.
However, there are believers stating that a non-existant being is out there -everywhere to be precise- leading our lives.
And then, we, atheist, reply: this in not true. There is not such a thing. There is no eternal life, no inmortal soul will "float" anywhere after death. There is not such a thing as spiritual life in this universe.
I do not believe, I know some things and ignore too many others, but I don't believe.
And now...:
a) Reason. Proof and error -sorry if this is not the correct expression, English is far from being my mother tongue-.
b) Purely emotional self-delusion. No one knows about god's existence: people may feel god, because our brains were trained for that by religious indoctrination when we were children. But you never really know, do you?
Do you agree on this?
