Khandro, //Are you pretending that 2,000 years of your culture, the teachings, the architecture, art, music and literature simply do not exist for you? //
No one has suggested that the culture within which we abide doesn’t exist for us. That’s silly.
//One atheist on this thread has defined what he sees as the Christian view of God and says he doesn't believe in it, which is his 'belief'//
No, it’s not a ‘belief’. ‘Belief’ in a supernatural entity for which there is no evidence requires immense imagination. Atheists don’t seek ‘divine’ intervention into their lives, they are content to take responsibility for themselves, they accept that death is inevitable, and therefore they have no reason whatsoever to crave the existence of such a being or to imagine that one such exists. They do not ‘need’ an imaginary friend to enable them to conduct their lives. Hence with nothing perceptible to believe, belief within an atheist is non-existent. Atheism is not a ‘belief’ – it is absence of belief. Why do you persist in attempting to complicate what is the only honest deduction that it’s possible for a rational thinker to reach? There is simply no argument. An atheist has looked - and discovered nothing to believe in.