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...My intent in answering this OP was to answer his question not to get in spurious arguments with everyone on this site or to answer every question raised...No one else seems to be answering every post or every question so I find it unreasonable for posters in this forum to hold me to a different and higher standard than they hold themselves... [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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The reason we have more to answer is because we are making the positive claim. We say there is a mysterious, non-physical "thing" which influences the world and which has far-reaching ramifications. Because we make the claim - we're the ones who should answer the questions like "Where is it? What is it? How can something non-physical have any effect on the world? How do you know? How do you reconcile the fact that there are a whole bunch of other religions contradicting your claims? Etcetera etcetera..."

That's the reason it feels like you are being held to a higher standard than others - because you are making a claim. The atheists are not making any claim about the world, they are saying they dont believe what some other people say.