(July 30, 2014 at 11:02 am)alpha male Wrote: As plenty of atheists say that if god were proven real they would still reject him, yes, it's still voluntary.
You're conflating the two stances, belief and worship. Yes, many atheists worthy of the appellation would, if asked, refuse to bend the knee and kiss the Yahweh arse, purely on the merits (or lack thereof) of the character as presented in the mythology. However, I doubt you'd find many atheists who'd continue to profess non-belief if the character's existence were proven beyond all reasonable doubt. And let's not forget, it's unbelief that is the one unforgivable 'sin', punished by hellfire and damnation and all the other excesses of the febrile mediaeval imagination.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'