Popular arguments you think Atheists shouldn't use

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I didn't say there was anything wrong with it, I said it irritates me.

I even conceded that it can be a good thing to bring up in a conversation with a theist, especially one who hasn't heard it before, and that I would even do so if I felt like a situation called for it, but that doesn't stop it from irritating me.

Incidentally, the reason it irritates me is that I think that it is so often quoted, especially with regards to atheists speaking to atheists (c'mon, we've ALLLLL heard this quote a hundred times), and so often written into books (written for atheists, skeptics, or freethinkers) that it has become overused, hence the reason I posted it in this thread. I wish people would let this particular quote alone for a while so that it can regain some of its punch.

Others feel this way about Bertrand Russell's celestial teapot the way I feel about the "everyone is an atheist" quote. Their feelings don't reflect on the merits of the teapot argument, they just feel that it is overused, just like my irritation isn't a reflection of the merits of that quote, I just feel it's being overuse.

I agree. You aren't really using an argument when you say that, you are just ripping off someone else's clever quote.