The reason I’m talking about God as a living being is because that is what this thread is all about! Notice the thread is titled
“the true definition of Atheism”
If it is, then atheists are fools. Because they haven't even managed to recognize the idea that they're supposedly rejecting. Instead, all they've managed to recognize are the imaginary depictions of the idea held by SOME theists. And in fact I think you're right; that this IS the prime motive of many self-professed atheists, which is why I tend to see many self-professed atheists as intellectually immature, and quite confused.
Atheist don’t deny God as a philosophical proposition, they deny him as an actual being.
Which is an incoherent position, since to uphold the proposition as possible, while denying the proposition as a reality, is quite incoherent. OR, if you are merely objecting to the religious depictions of God, then you aren't really an atheist at all. You're just a confused, anti-religious antagonist wrongly calling yourself an atheist. Being anti-religious does not make you an atheist. And the fact that you think it does is why I've said all along that you have not managed to differentiate between religion and theism.
The problem is that you have no grounds upon which to reject the theist proposition. And yet you WANT TO reject it, anyway. So you deliberately confuse and conflate the theist proposition with the most absurd religious depictions and proclamations about the existence of God, so you can dismiss the theist proposition along with the religious artifice.
Now if you wanna talk about God being a philosophical proposition, I would encourage you to start another thread and I would be more than happy to discuss this with you; but this thread appears to be something you are not interested in talking about.
This thread is about the definition of an atheist. And that is what I am clarifying here. That being anti-religious is not the same as being atheist.
Describe God, and I will tell you if I believe he likely exists or not.
No one cares whether you believe God exists or not. We only care about what you assert to be true, or untrue, and why.
No it’s not that simple. Depending on your description, I might call what you call God; something else other than God.
How you or I choose to conceptualize God is irrelevant to the proposition that God exists. It's only relevant to the various religions and the ways they choose to conceptualize the existence of God.
