Atheists.
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- gung_hoek0
this discussion is odd, because both sides really argue for the same thing. basically god is really just a reflection of your own conscience. religious people project themselves onto a higher being ("god"), others experience the same thing by meditating (e.g. buddhists and tantraists, if I´m not mistaken). Atheists can experience a similar thing by auto-suggestion/auto-suggestive techniques (which are recognized and measurable by scienctific research).
how you get in touch with yourself (sounds like a mindwank now :)) is really just a matter of taste and/or culture and/or upbringing. therefore an argument about that is futile.
the important thing is IMO, that every human being shares the same precondition to experience this (call it god, call it slef-conscience, whatever), it doesn´t really matter what the package for "god" is.
many atheists misinterprate and mock the belief in god as believing in some kind of person with a beard, while the majority of christians actually believes in a SPIRIT (+trinity thing...), if I´m not mistaken. If the fundamentalists from both sides would take a step back, you would notice that there´s much more common ground than differences in this debate. like e.g. the fundamental moral values, they´re really the same for all alike, global, timeless.
attacking people for their beliefs, or their non-beliefs for that matter, is like attacking someone for not having the same taste in music like yourself. does taht make sense?