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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you care what atheists think?

Same reason, just the opposite perspective.

I will note that not one atheist I know complains when a theist attempts to defend their position.  They relish the chance to discuss it, in fact.

Wonder why that is?[/quote]

When atheists represent God incorrectly (God gives babies cancer) is when I care.

If I posted that atheists sacrifice babies to Satan you would care, because it’s an obvious and disgusting lie.

Constantly posting that God gives babies cancer and allows them to suffer and dir because He is a cruel bastard is definitely on that level. It’s not true.[/quote]

Here’s the big flaw in your argument:

Atheists are PEOPLE.  You have evidence whether what you say about them is true or not.  That’s why it would be ridiculous if you made the claim about them sacrificing babies.

God (as commonly defined) is illogical, and the problem of evil is one of the most obvious examples of evidence of that fact.  No atheist actually believes that god gives children cancer.  Because there is likely no god as defined.  But most theist beliefs require this premise to be true, as per the famous Epicurus quote posted in another thread:

[i]Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

― Epicurus
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The fact that it spins believers into frenzy is because there really is no rational justification for the belief. [/quote]

Epicurus was not an atheist, although he rejected the idea of a god concerned with human affairs; followers of Epicureanism denied the idea that there was no god. [/quote]

Nice job avoiding the point.  In kind, Hitler was a vegetarian and George Washington had wooden teeth.  All irrelevant to the conversation.

Answer the questions Epicurus asks.  The problem of evil is the best evidence that the kind of god most believe in does not and can not exist.[/quote]

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