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It's actually really sad how people take the time to insult another religion, when they do not care about a god/gods and do not believe in them. This is for anybody of any religion, too, who take the time to insult someone else because of different beliefs.
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I suspect parental/familial issues and trauma.
It's like screaming "my dad (or mom) doesn't exist!!!" They want to deny, and pretend like their authority doesn't exist. Why do they do this? Because it is the nature of children and young people to deny powers and forces greater than their own ego. They want to ignore what is more powerful, superior, and above them (like a mother and father).
Also I liken strong-atheism with child-abandonment. A fatherless (bastard) child, doesn't know who his/her biological father is, and so uses this as analogy for god. God doesn't exist, because for the bastard, his/her father is never around. Absent. Gone. Invisible. Disappeared.
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Define God, and we'll know…
The problem with theism/deism/atheism/etc. is that the average person cannot "define god" with any degree of certainty or confidence. So people commonly refer to "what Priest X or Rabbi Y" said, a long time ago. That is not conducive, practical, or informative regarding an average discussion about god.
If you gave me a definition of god, that you are willing to commit into, then I'd be able to tell you whether I agree with it or not, and we'd see who is "atheist/christian" accordingly.
I consider myself more a polytheist and deist, than an atheist. It depends on how each individual defines god in his/her own "unique" way. Even though the average person has very common, very popular definitions of god, based on the bible or whatever.
The definition of "Authority" is the intellectual and moral capacity to "own up to" what you say, believe, write, believe, think, act, etc.
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