Or they’re not spelling out their evidence because it seems obvious to them and therefore (in their minds) should be obvious to you as well and need no explanation.
I know many Atheists for whom their belief in no god is indeed a religion. They arrived at their belief not through reason and weighing the evidence but through the same kind of blind acceptance of someone else’s cached values that religionists engage in. They fall into the same traps of treating “arguments as soldiers” as do the religionists. They make the same kind of circular, bad arguments in favour of their own point of view. Since these people also tend to be the most vocal, militant Atheists they are the ones that vocal Theists run up against the most often. As a result Theists, upon encountering a rational Atheist are at least as perplexed as an Atheist encountering one of the rare, rational Theists and the two often end up talking past each other due to not realising that the assumed common frame of reference they’re each trying to use for communication isn’t actually common.
Or they’re not spelling out their evidence because it seems obvious to them and therefore (in their minds) should be obvious to you as well and need no explanation.
I know many Atheists for whom their belief in no god is indeed a religion. They arrived at their belief not through reason and weighing the evidence but through the same kind of blind acceptance of someone else’s cached values that religionists engage in. They fall into the same traps of treating “arguments as soldiers” as do the religionists. They make the same kind of circular, bad arguments in favour of their own point of view. Since these people also tend to be the most vocal, militant Atheists they are the ones that vocal Theists run up against the most often. As a result Theists, upon encountering a rational Atheist are at least as perplexed as an Atheist encountering one of the rare, rational Theists and the two often end up talking past each other due to not realising that the assumed common frame of reference they’re each trying to use for communication isn’t actually common.