The honest truth of it?

[Paul the Human]

As for your above post, Paul, I can only say that it is reiddled with fallacy. You posit and you speculate, but you show no understanding. You merely demonstrate wishful thinking when you say "I'd like to think that one day..." You delve no further than your own understanding of the world, and make no attempt to see it in an unbiased light. You use condescending terms such as 'make-believe' and 'fairy tale', when you do not understand what it is you are condescending.

If ever I meet a true atheist, I will stop believing on the spot.

There is no fallacy. "I'd like to think that one day..." is my way of saying that I think you seem like an intelligent person and I'd like to think that someday that intelligence will win out over your reliance on superstitious self-delusion. My understanding of the world does not rely on invisible deities or miraculous occurrences for explanations. I see it in the light of what I can perceive and know to be true, not what might exist or what I've been told... or what I wish were true.

And I use those 'condescending' terms to accentuate my point that I do not believe in any of that. In my completely honest opinion... it is all make-believe and fairy-tales... and believing in any of it is a form of self-delusion. Perhaps not consciously, but it is self-delusion, nonetheless.

News Flash! You have met a true atheist. I truly do not believe that god(s) of any description ever existed, nor ever will. I do not believe in an afterlife, nor do I believe in Jesus Christ... not even as an historical person. All fiction. Every last word.

Now, don't get upset that I feel that way. I don't hold your tendency to self-delude against you as a person. In fact, I think you're a pretty good guy. I just think you are unenlightened about the existence of god.