(February 15, 2010 at 10:52 pm)Minimalist Wrote: This kind of belief is very personal to them. An attack on this fairy tale reality they have constructed is a threat to every thing they hold dear.
Correct. The way they lash out when "attacked" is proof of this. I was holding a conversation with this man in another forum and some of the atheists there had starting jokingly calling god by the names of fairy tale, fantasy or sci-fi characters. So, in the spirit of the thread, I began calling god, Gandalf. His reaction was to tell me, quite graphically, how I fornicate with farm animals, and him, if I remember correctly.