I mentioned his grammar once only after he made a bad claim against me; it's like you missed all of what else I was saying.
Which wasn't much, admittedly.
Yes, let us all frame this as an attack on you, you are the one being persecuted. I only "attacked" your grammar because it highlighted your hypocrisy - claiming that I did not know about any other religion simply because I define myself as being an atheist, you probably would have criticize me if I misspelled Christianity because you thought I did not know anything about it.
Well, no. When I attack someone's intelligence, I don't do it by saying, "You spelled that wrong, you're obviously an idiot." I explain to them why I think they're an idiot... it's possible I'd use the spelling as an afterthought... but I've responded to everything you've said, and the main point seems to be trying to make me look stupid with stuff that really has nothing to do with our argument at all.
Everyone is born an atheist,
What about the "God gene"? (The one that scientists say makes one desire religion?) I haven't seen really enough evidence for it, but I wouldn't be surprised at all, if it actually *did* exist. Despite it being a pointless argument made by some atheists (not meaning to generalize here, since I have to phrase everything in a politically correct way).
and if I am wrong when I die and if it turns out that there is a god, his or her denial of me based on my earthly knowledge would make me sympathize with the devil. The devil probably does things because he knows that all Christians will do is sing, dance, and pray about it rather than do anything substantial; I bet he does it for shits and giggles.
At least my sect of Christianity believes God will put you where you're most comfortable. If you don't want to be with Him, he won't put you with Him. He'll let you be in a place with others like you. It's an interesting thought, I don't think you've considered before that I thought you might find interesting.
In logic, it is said that you cannot prove non-existence, but also that the burden of proof lies on those trying to prove something.
Religion doesn't have the burden of trying to make itself a scientific theory. Who cares if there's no disprovability?
The idea of evolution-- the reason it's not a scientific theory is because there is no standard of disprovability upon which it can be measured by. (Which is a standard it MUST have by defintion-- it's what makes it a theory.)
This is why the Pope doesn't use science, because it's *not* science. This is also why evolutionism seems more of a religion than science to me.
With that last statement, one would wonder why I am an atheist if I could not prove that gods didn't exist - well even if they did, they wouldn't be having an impact on my life so they would be as good as gone and the Bible contradicts itself enough to make it unreasonable.
The Bible that was written, translated and handed down for generations by... humans? The not-supernatural kind?
As for my quote, if you know so much to deny all other gods and just believe in one, what would you think if you were wrong and Ra or whoever was pissed at you. Wouldn't that be unfair?
I think so, but I don't believe in Ra. I believe in a God who wouldn't be missed off if you had geniune misinformation in your life.
As for the Republican Convention, I am just happy that Bush is speaking as his presence to the party reinvigorates my side.
You'll notice a major focus was put on differences between him and McCain. I don't think it was counterproductive by much. cakefarts's trying to frame him as just another Bushy, and the entire point of last night (and Lieberman's excellent speech) was that McCain is an independent man. Obviously the theme was that he "puts his country before party" and knows how bipartisanship works. I think that if geniune undecideds matter (although they're probably negligable), that this would have worked as a really strong argument in favor of McCain/Palin.
Language is a fickle !@#$% at best.
Well the exact defining of what atheism was, is your argument. Let me quote your first post (what I've been reacting to):
I just have to say this, possum, because of a comment of yours about respecting Atheist 'beliefs': Atheism is the lack of a belief in any gods or divine powers. I've said it before and I'll say it again, absence of belief and belief in an absence are two separate things.
Well, I don't respect the belief that there "is no God (or "a god" or "supreme being", etc.)".
As far as I can tell, that's what atheism is. But if it's a mere lack of belief, then whatever. It really doesn't matter to me.