Ceteloguing the Tricks Theists Play

[Drich]

But one can look around and instantly see proof of atheists, teenagers, and people named Phillip. However, no god has ever been proven to exist,

That's not true at all is it.. Maybe you should say the 'proof' the there is a God is no longer accepted and what proof enough for thousands if not millions to be martyred for their beliefs is no longer accepted.

so we're going to need a lot more evidence than anecdotal experience. If I claimed to be a leprachaun working out of Atlantis, that might be where a rational person might demand proof, because none of those have ever been proven to exist.

All anyone would need do or say to you making such a claim is 'show me.' If you could indeed show us then whatever you show us would be deemed as 'anecdotal evidence' (No matter what you decided to show us or involve us in) by those who did not want to believe you...

Then the question would become; would you want to have to 'prove yourself' to someone who hates you and your claims? What motivation would you have to 'prove yourself' to those who you could very well know will always hate and resent you?