PhilGoetz comments on Navigating disagreement: How to keep your eye on the evidence - Less Wrong
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I call myself an atheist, and I don't believe that P = 1.
"Atheist => P = 1" is a slander that theists seek to tar atheists with. The irony is that the situation is exactly opposite: P = 1 is not the atheist belief, but is the theologically required Christian belief.
Even if it were P = 1, why do you take atheists to task for claiming to be certain that there is no god; yet not take Catholics to task for claiming to be certain that there is one God who created the world in 6 days, created one man and one woman, destroyed most of humanity in a great flood, for no reason restricted himself later to being the god of just the Jewish nation, decided several thousand years later that he needed to send his Son (what? don't ask) to die to "pay" (huh? don't ask) himself for everyone's sins, decided for no reason to suddenly not restrict himself to the Jews, and also to just then reveal that people who didn't follow a particular doctrine would suffer agony for all eternity, appointed Peter the head of a single Church with a direct line to God under certain conditions, inspired the choice of a particular set out of hundreds of possible texts as scripture, and requires them to obey the Pope?