Critical thinking, Why? Because apparently I am rubbish at it.

[Gordon]

Dear Gordon,

Nice, my Faith is empty, this is the result of your critical thinking, another fundamental point of critical thinking is confirmation bias, how is your confirmation bias Gordon, and please remember you are human, I have met you, I can vouch for that very fact.

Gonnagle.

It's not confirmation bias though: it's simply the complete absence of any credible arguments or evidence for 'God' in the first place: therefore, there are no good reasons for me to take the 'God' notion seriously, nor anything that flows from that (such as religious traditions or holy books).

[Stranger]

Nice, my Faith is empty...

Since you don't know (or won't tell us) what you think 'God' is, this appears to be quite literally true. The object of your faith is without meaning. 

[Gonnagle]

It's not confirmation bias though: it's simply the complete absence of any credible arguments or evidence for 'God' in the first place: therefore, there are no good reasons for me to take the 'God' notion seriously, nor anything that flows from that (such as religious traditions or holy books).

Dear Gordon,

Yes, keep telling yourself that, but your answer does give me pause for thought, are Atheists scared to be human?

Goodnight and may your, oops! silly me.

Gonnagle.

[Gonnagle]

Since you don't know (or won't tell us) what you think 'God' is, this appears to be quite literally true. The object of your faith is without meaning. 

Dear Stranger,

We had the conversation but your answers were "off the top of my head" and "probably" which made me wonder, should I have a conversation with someone who treats the greatest virtues a man could aspire to with off the top of my head and probably.

Goodnight Sir.

Gonnagle.

[Gordon]

Dear Gordon,

Yes, keep telling yourself that, but your answer does give me pause for thought, are Atheists scared to be human?

Goodnight and may your, oops! silly me.

Gonnagle.

I'm ok with being human: it's just that I don't need 'God' to be human, and I think I act like a human when dealing with 'stuff' since being human is all I can ever be (even if, at times, it isn't easy).

Goodnight Gonners.

[Stranger]

We had the conversation but your answers were "off the top of my head" and "probably" which made me wonder, should I have a conversation with someone who treats the greatest virtues a man could aspire to with off the top of my head and probably.

Answers? I think I said that once. Anyway, the reason was simply that I was asking you what you thought 'God' meant and you started going on about human virtues. We could discuss human virtues forever and a day, but if you think 'God' is human virtues, which was your initial claim, you'd then, in most senses of the word, be an atheist. You didn't like that and immediately contradicted yourself.

Which is worse, a vague comment or blatant self-contradiction?

[Aruntraveller]

But regarding intellectual empathy, you or rather the Atheist fraternity do not give me much to work on, "there ain't no God" limits me in practicing my empathy.

Think you are completely missing the point of empathy.

A clue for you, it doesn't work by getting all huffy when people don't bow to your assertions about religion and then throwing out phrases like "Atheist fraternity".

Anyway, right back at ya, because "there is a God that I know exists, but you are too stupid to see it" is not exactly a great starting point from your end either. You religionists are all the same.