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You seem to be missing an important necessary inequality of positions that creates this sort of language. As believers, we have to take the Bible as authoritative to at least some degree and within it there is Romans 1 which states that those who won't have God as God are not simply personally suspicious but are suppressors of the truth. So the question for the believer is who's word are they going to take more seriously, the atheist who may or may not be fully conscious of the underlying psychological issues at play in their disbelief, or God. So that language is naturally going to be an issue and we are, on some level, expressing suspicion towards your ability to make appraisals or honestly express yourself.As I did with the other poster take a look at that language: "proclaim to be atheists". We are. It is not a claim. We don't believe in God just the same as you do.
More than likely your idea of defending it, and that posters, are two very different things.Oh, to make you defend it, but alas, the powers that be won't let me make the necessary arguments.
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