While I wouldn't go to the lengths that the author at CAPRO does, I do like this segment of his reasoning:
"Yet, if he [the Atheist] claims that he is not omniscient—that that is something those dastardly theists have falsely pinned on him to try and smear the atheist non-belief system—then how can he be absolutely certain that God does not exist?
Would he then not have to change his definition of atheism to include belief? That atheism is a belief about God’s non-existence; not an absence of belief?
Surely Mr. Smith, and other atheists who cling to this manufactured definition of atheism, has painted himself into a corner that he cannot get out of.
On the one hand he wishes for his audience to believe that he lacks belief, while on the other he wants his audience to believe in what he believes is true, simply because he believes it; namely that God does not exist."
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That mimics my normally approach to the casual Atheists I know, especially when I tell them Atheism is their religion (because I know they'll get angry and resort to the old canards). They have beliefs, plenty of them, and they have their prophets, and they very very much believe (or want to believe) God doesn't exist.
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