3 universal truths all religions agree upon:

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48. Dismissive? Wow

You called atheism "irrational". I asked you a simple and direct question to see if you could justify that statement:

Is it rational or irrational to base the strength of one's convictions on the strength of the evidence supporting them?

You refused to answer. What should that tell me about the strength of your position or your intellectual honesty?

And in a nutshell, here's why all the rest is twaddle . When faced with something that can't be explained, "god" as an explanation doesn't win by default. Why should it? "God" is the only "preconceived notion" here, and that line of thinking assumes without evidence that there must be one, and that if other explanations don't satisfy you, "gawddidit" MUST be correct, rather than, "I don't know". Something as powerful and influential as you describe your "god" as being has to have direct, affirmative evidence in favor of it. I'm totally convinced that the sun exists. Why should the existence of your "god", so much grander and more powerful, have to be inferred through such tortured arguments?

And yes, atheists HAVE considered the stuff you wrote, over and over and over. You're the one who is arrogantly assuming that your "proof" for god is something we've never heard or thought about before.