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For leading your life as you see fit, and believing the universe is ordered a certain way. I've got no ill wishes against that.
As far as the argument that you get your conscience or morality from a creator, well that argument has been thoroughly exhausted. You can choose to believe that because you have traits or symptoms of being they MUST have been given to you by something or someone else. If that's really the argument though for God's existence, I can tell for a fact you haven't read the argument from the other side regarding where those things come from, and thus I don't really want to debate it. I've seen this movie before.
As to the original point I was trying to make which I feel you have dodged. Atheist's DO give reasons why they lack belief in God. I gave a few examples, and there are dozens more out there. A competent Atheist can and SHOULD back up his argument. But ultimately an Atheist is merely rejecting Theistic claims. That's what the definition of Atheism is. You say "I believe Jehovah is God", you give reasons for believing it, I think your reasons are weak and don't hold up to scrutiny for reasons X Y and Z, bam, that makes me Atheist regarding Jehovah. Atheism is a reaction to Theistic claims.
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I can never prove your version of Theism is false. Never. Never ever in a billion years. You know why? Because your version of Theism depicts a God that lives outside our physical universe. He is undetectable. He is unfalsifiable. There is not one single thing I could point to that proves God doesn't exist. This is why Atheists get annoyed when a Theist says "you claim there is no God, the burden of proof is on you". By your definition of God, it is literally impossible to disprove. We can only point to the holes in your arguments or the lack of evidence supporting your claims. I say again, Atheism is a REACTION to Theism. I mean it has the word Theism in it for crying out loud lol.

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