Debate: is god true?
Side: yes, god is true

"A lack of belief is not a belief, and atheists lack belief. It doesn't get any simpler than that. Another point from a different debate that you failed to address" I have shown you that atheism is not just a lack in belief. It is the claim or belief there is no God or deity. You don't come on here and say "I don't believe", you claim there is no God. That is why you don't simply 'lack a belief', but you 'believe there is no God'. You make the claim that He doesn't exist. If you state your opinion that is one thing (that is not atheism). When you put 'atheism' with your ideal, then you are making the claim there is no God. You put yourself in that category. "If atheism is a religion, then the lack of belief in anything else is also a religion. As there are infinite things not to believe in, then there are infinite religions, and we would all belong to the vast majority of them. If there are infinite religions and we all belong to an infinite amount of them, then don't you think that essentially cheapens religion into a meaningless concept?" Like I have said atheism is specifically the 'disbelief in a deity' or the 'belief there is no God'. You see when you have an opinion which you can't verify with facts then you have a belief. You don't say "my opinion is", instead you say "there is no God" this is making an unverifiable claim. Atheism is a religious belief, it's dogma 'claims on inadequate grounds'. I was trying to show you that you have no way to 'state as fact' that there is no God. "An atheist who claims they know God doesn't exist is being dishonest." Yet this has been your claim in every discussion. To claim he doesn't exist. Not just stating your opinion. "No one knows. We have all reached conclusions based on the available evidence, which amounts to nothing more than the Bible and for some people, this is pretty weak evidence." You are as ignorant as the rest of the atheists on this site. The Bible is a compilation of books full of eyewitness testimony. Thousands and thousands of people witnessed the works of God. Over 500 people witnessed the resurrected Jesus. There is evidence in the Bible. You just refuse to acknowledge the witnesses. The fact that we can through natural science prove there was a flood. "What's wrong with being honest? If we don't know the answer to a question, why is the answer automatically God? This is a sad habit that humans need to grow out of. All throughout history, people have answered difficult questions with a supernatural force, and all it has done it impede the pursuit of the real answer." There has been no real answer. The habit we need to grow out of is ignoring God. "The Big Bang theory does not state that matter came from nothing, it states that it expanded from a singularity. Try again." It was a compilation of energy and matter. According to thermodynamics "new matter and energy don't come into existence". The law of conservation states that energy is merely 'recycled' but no new energy is created. Then the law of cause and effect says that "all effects have a known or unknown cause". So then there must be a first cause that started all causes. We know matter and energy can't create themselves. So then the Big Bang implies matter and energy came from nothing. In order for their to be something to expand, there has to be the 'something' first. Where did this matter and energy come from?