Reply #34: I think you are again missing the point

[Goblinmonger]

The author of the essay is asking people that aren't atheists to put themselves in the situation described and then ask yourself how you would handle it, what you would think, etc.

To me (someone raised Catholic but now an atheist), Grandpa in the sky is whacky. Plenty of people believe in him. It is the reality that I live in that most everyone I come in contact with believes in something that I see as a fairy tale. Again, the author is just trying to get you to see the world through my eyes for a minute.

Again, the "hordes of people" quotation comes from the scenario that the author is presenting to help you feel a little uncomfortable in the "pretend world" he has created in an attempt to make you walk in my shoes for a bit.

The kind of remarks made the way you take them out of context are made about atheists by people who participate here all the time. Yet noone here is posting anything like you say we are.