Which was first: Atheism or Religion?

[Knowledge of God]

Intellectual honesty, as far as they have intellect..

If the best you can do is "you're dumb!" then fuck off back to Legoland, okay? You could at least attempt rational discourse, even if we both know you'd fail.

WTF are you doing?

We can believe intellectually by the power of deduction. You've seen how it works so don't go acting dumb on me now. The rewards of belief are evident. Here's the tricky bit, be sure to concentrate..... to a non believer those effects can be explained away.

Okay, serious question: when you talk about the rewards of belief, what do you mean? I ask out of politeness, because I don't want to put words in your mouth for my next question, which is: how do you know those rewards are from the god you believe in, and not some other source? You say they can be explained away, what are you using to verify that the source you attribute them to is correct, over the secular alternatives?

Ecclessiastes 2;26 To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.