Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?

[Angrboda]

I think we are all biased. Bias tends to ensure that, once we are headed toward one conclusion, we will keep going in the direction of that conclusion. That's what bias is, viewing the evidence with a preference for one direction over another. Thus the atheist reinforces her disbelief while the theist reinforces her belief. Neither can clearly see the reasons of either side because of the working of that bias.

I became an atheist largely because I recognized that I was using reason inconsistently in support of my beliefs. Now, having embraced atheism, I'm greeted with a host of ostensible 'reasons' for maintaining my disbelief. Standard arguments, about the incompatibility of various religious beliefs, their geographic dispersion, objections to various theist arguments, and so forth. To say that I disbelieve due to a lack of evidence would, I think be in error. I disbelieve, and then I have reasons which reinforce my disbelief. Just as a theist believes, and then has reasons for that belief.

In short, I recognize that part of my disbelief is bound up in bias against belief, which leads me to certain reasons, whereas a theist in their bias to believe is bound up in bias to believe. I don't know what I'm trying to say, other than that I acknowledge I have a bias against theist beliefs.