[hosepipe]

[ It is interesting to know what people take as axioms. An atheist must take "existence" as an axiom. ]

True.. makes me think that a smart honest atheist would/should at least say;
"If there is no God, well, there ought to be one"..
and inventing one would/should be mandatory to proper human progessive education..
Starting with a God concept and educating yourself out of it.. and thats the way it SHOULD BE..

Yeah.. a spiritual temper tantrum seems to be the diagnosis.. Maybe an atheist is just a spoiled intellectual brat.. i.e. They want what they want and thats all it is too it.. They want there to be no God.. And by GOD thats all there is to it.. LoL..

[Alamo-Girl]

LOLOLOL! What a delightful way to envision it!

[tortoise]

True.. makes me think that a smart honest atheist would/should at least say; "If there is no God, well, there ought to be one".."

The problem is that the kinds of god-like entities one arrives at this way are not particularly compatible with the basic Christian conception, so I'm not sure how this would be constructive toward instilling Christian belief. At best, it might support belief in some other God with more reasonable hypothetical properties (which may or may not have a major religion attached to it).