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

"Nitpicking." I assure you this is a very important statement in our argument. "Either God is responsible for everything, or nothing. Not just the good things." You still don't understand the concept here. Yes, God created everything. However we (all people) ruined the creation. Our ability to remain eternal in life was affected by sin. Because of that we degrade and are vulnerable. What bad things do you speak of? Diseases and illnesses results from sin and our vulnerability. People doing bad things to other people is sin, but more specifically the choices of 'free will' we all make. The problem with your point of view is that you want to blame someone other then the offender. We see this in our culture with 'passing the blame' to someone else. No one wants to 'own up' to their mistakes. We want to blame someone else for the bad things we do. Why do you accept this? "Christians have the same amount of evidence off of which to base a conclusion; none. The obvious difference is that atheists are not the ones making a claim; religious people are. Atheists simply choose not to accept the claim." You and Atheism as whole claim there is no God. "the doctrine that there is no deity" Definition 2B http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atheism That is a claim, or do you even know what claim means? "to assert in the face of possible contradiction" Definition 3A http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/claim Just in case you need clarification. "http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/religion" It looks like Definition 2 would fit really well. "a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects" Particularly the fundamental set of beliefs generally agreed upon (the 'belief' there is no God for example) which you can't prove. "Interestingly, I went to a couple of your sources and noticed that you declined to include alternate definitions that defined atheism as disbelief rather than belief." Exactly alternate definitions. That's why I listed the source for you. Are you really that ignorant? "What stake do you have in convincing yourself that atheism, by definition the absence of theism, is a religion?" Where is this an acceptable definition of Atheism, or are you trying to change words to make yourself right? "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism" Really, this is a credible source to you. I can go there and say "Atheism is the belief that purple is the color gray". This is not a reliable or verifiable source. "http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/ mathew/sn-definitions.html" This site you feel can better describe the English language then the Merriam-Webster Dictionary? Your ignorance knows no bounds. "It is ironic that you are quoting from the dictionary, while earlier making special exceptions for the Bible when it comes to the definition of words. Apparently dictionary definitions only apply when they are convenient for you." I assume you are referring 'owph the Hebrew word for winged creature. Where is the special exception here? You were the one trying to imply it only meant birds. I was simply showing you that you tried to confine Hebrew to your terms not it's actual meaning. And the translation was from the Hebrew to English Lexicon not the dictionary which you are claiming.