Let me put it this way. Atheism, like Leftism, is irrational. Neither can win the debate in the forum of ideas because the irrationality of the lies they adhere to is defeated by the rationality of the truth.
I’m sure there are atheists who don’t care about their “rationality” or “winning the debate in the forum of ideas”. They just say, “I don’t care, I just don’t believe there is a God.” Well, those folks are not necessarily claiming that atheism is reasonable or rational - they just don’t care. So a discussion with them is futile.
Are you one that cares about atheism being rational and claims that atheism is rational?
‘Are you one that cares about atheism being rational and claims that atheism is rational?’
any set of beliefs can be derived from reason; agnosticism (I actually don’t believe any such thing as atheism exists except in the form of nihilism)appears to employ reason to a greater extent than dogmatic credence, because it allows that it may be incorrect, and thus open to logical argument...faith, however it is defined, can be derived rationally as well, but it tends toward lack of self examination if employed in too doctrinal a formation...
the agnostic says, quite directly, that metaphysical existences are not themselves observable, and metrics to define them are unavailable; no agnostic worthy of the name opines, ipso facto, that this or that is the immutable truth, and thus factors out the charge of irrationality regarding counter arguments...