What are some good checkmate arguments against religion?

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It's the opposite of what some atheists in this forum have told us about their time as Christians. They really believed and tried to convert others to Christianity. Now that they've become atheists their views on the 'truth' of Christianity have changed. Francis Collins is giving us his views of atheism after he'd converted to Christianity. Why would anyone expect him to hold the same views he had when he was an atheist?

It's not that he has different views, it's that he's very nearly talking about a different thing: when he discusses the "blind faith" of atheists because god cannot be proved or disproved by science, that's necessarily a claim that only makes sense with a gnostic atheist position of there definitely being no god. I don't think I've ever met an atheist who thinks like that.

That's not to say they aren't out there, just that I find it interesting that Collins' new position on atheism focuses on the other extreme of the spectrum, rather than the middle of the bell curve most of us fall into.