The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians

[TheRocketSurgeon]

There is a whole other word for what you're describing: anti-theist, someone who thinks people shouldn't be theists and is vocal about it. It's like if I said Musilms take the stance that Sharia law should be imposed on all the nations. All the Muslims who don't agree with that are going to resent being included in that generalization.

Tiberius's view is a common one among atheists, I subscribe to it myself. Maybe you should assume less about what other people's opinions are.

It may common. I don't know. You are right I shouldn't generalize.

We appreciate not being generalized, but as an agnostic atheist, I think that it's clear that the question is impossible to know.

We can think it, we can feel it, we can personally conclude based on the bulk of the circumstantial evidence (in combination with feelings/thoughts) are enough to convince  us that gods do or don't exist. But we cannot know.

As an agnostic, this is my philosophy, that anyone who says they know is lying to me, and probably to themselves.

As an atheist, my opinion is the conclusion, based on the bulk of the circumstantial evidence (such as the fact that everyone says they believe in gods, but no one agrees on the characteristics, nature, or even name of these gods), that all gods are made up. Not real. Product of human imagination. But I'm honest enough to admit I don't know.

I say all this because it makes me a little mad when a theist says that we are not humble (or respectable) unless we "admit" that perhaps people have absolute knowledge of the existence of deities. Of course, as above, each person would expect me to conclude that their god is the "right one" that they know exists. And MK would say it is Allah, and GC would say it is Jehovah, and so on ad infinitum, until I am bending over backward to "admit" that they all might really know the truth about all these different gods.

No way. No. Way.