The hiddeness of god?

[Captain Scarlet]

I know you're faculties are in place, as are mine. I never claimed that the Christian God was the 'one true God' and it always amuses me when atheists assume I have. You know what they say about assumptions.

So then, here's my argument against atheism; not all the world may be Christian, but just about 5 billion people believe in some form of a God. I wonder what those people see that the atheists don't?

I'm glad I/ we have made you laugh. So where your argument falls down is that Christianity is an exclusivist religion. As is Islam, Judaism, Hinduism. Confusionism and buddism are religions without a god. Other eastern religions are identify the divine with nature or humans. I'm afraid that 5 billion people all beleive in different and in most cases competing god/s paradigms. So you make the case for athiesm even better than I have on that the only thing all religions get right is that all the others are wrong. As for your own pluralist views, you are of course entitled to them it does leave your argumentation exposed to ridicule however. Nothing is as overrated as ecumenicism.