Except Jesus didn't "eliminate sin" because you can still sin today. If Jesus eliminated sin, there would be no need to ask for forgiveness because sin wouldn't exist anymore.
There's a huge difference between the two. People can believe whatever load of cockamamie nonsense they want but they cannot "know" that it's true. Knowledge requires some substantive, objective basis in fact. No matter how strongly someone might believe that Bigfoot is real, they cannot claim...
No, you're simply wrong. Because "in the lab" requires objective evidence. Theists have zero. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada. They have nothing that they can present that can be objectively examined.
There is no such thing as "rational for you". It is either rational or it is not. People do...
Other than that those are possible solutions, not accepted as absolute fact, and religion is seen as absolute fact, without having any evidence that it actually is? At least scientific theories are backed up by mathematical models. What is religion backed up by?
I don't reject their evidence because they have no evidence to reject. What they present is not evidence and would not be seen as evidence for any other claim. If someone said "I felt Bigfoot in my heart" or "I have philosophical arguments for the existence of extraterrestrials", they'd get...
Which is exactly how the majority of atheists operate. Their atheism is based on rejecting the unsupported and unsubstantiated claims made by theists. If theism just vanished from the world, so would atheism because atheism is simply a response to theism. But instead of acknowledging this...
No, actually they don't. They provide me with unsupported claims and personal interpretations. They have no evidence.
Well, how you personally define spirituality, at least.
That's not spirituality though, that's something else. You're taking something that exists and simply applying...
Then you're not paying attention because that's where every shred of objective evidence points. And even if there wasn't, not having an answer is not a license to just make up some emotionally-comforting nonsense because you feel like it. That's just idiotic.
Atheism is just not believing the crap that theists say because they haven't demonstrated it to be true. So long as that's the case, atheism has very high odds because nobody in their right mind should believe anything without it being shown to be factually correct.
But why should anyone believe in spirituality? What evidence exists for it? If you're going to claim that spirituality exists in the real world, then there needs to be some objective means of demonstrating it. Funny that nobody ever manages to do so.
I reject the premise that religion actually "works" in any demonstrable way. It is a way of covering ignorance about the world. I suppose at one point, it served some function because people are uncomfortable admitting that they simply don't know something, but today, when we actually do know...