Whenever you take a position on anything, this is a conviction. Dogs don't reason abstractly.

If you take a position that atheism has become a religion, that is a conviction.
If you take the opposite position, that is a conviction although in my opinion a more useful one.

The problem with threads like this is they trade on generalizations. The reason for
this thread is manifestly a diatribe against atheists who are outspoken.

There are no intelligent ideas now coming out of this thread and it should be retired.

I see no point of agreement or anyone changing their minds on this issue. It has turned into a battle for which there is no point. It's this kind of animosity that create wars.

This idiocy has turned into a shouting match.

Steve, you are wasting your breath. No one here will be swayed by your defense.

The religious advocates here are also wasting their breath. Nothing has been said by
any one of them that has changed my mind.

I think this thread was dead in the water when it was introduced. Sensible people have abandoned the field and left it to the crazies.