If Atheists Had Faith

I did not downvote the original, but I downvoted this post because it kind of seems like you're judging the people who downvoted the original, rather than just assuming they did that because they did not find it useful.

I'm not surprised Dawkins makes a cameo in it. The theist in the discussion is a very blunt strawman, just as Dawkins usually likes to invite the dumbest theists he can find, who say the stupidest things about evolution or global warming, thereby allegedly proving all theists wrong.

I'm sorry if I might have offended Dawkins, I know many readers here are a fan of him. However, I have to state that although I have no doubts about the values of his scientific work and his competence in his field, he does make a clown of himself with all those stawman attacks against theism.

Since my comment was vague enough to be misunderstood, I'll try to clarify what I thought the first time.

The dialogue reads as a comedy skit where the joke is "theists r dum". The atheist states beliefs that are a parody of certain attitudes of religious believers, and then the theist goes along with an obvious setup they should see coming a mile away. It doesn't seem any more plausible than the classic "rabbit season, duck season" exchange in Looney Tunes, so it's not valuable.

If you told theists that your atheism was faith-based, they really would start thinking about and presenting reasons why faith shouldn't overpower reason and evidence

How much empirical evidence do you have for that claim? With how many theists did you try it?

Did you just believe that claim based on faith without any empirical evidence?

I thought it was meant to be a parody, and I didn't find it very funny.

I downvoted the original post because I think arguing about definitions is boring, and doubly so when it's about theology. I also didn't like the format of the post since it just seemed to be an argument with a straw man.