I don’t have to be a telepath.
Your atheist designation tells me all I need to know
Well done. You have successfully dehumanized your opponent. They are nothing more than a label. That's the way to convince yourself you don't have to actually think and consider.
I guess your "theist designation" tells me all I need to know about you? You beat your child with a rod; you shun any man who is blind, deaf or lame, you stone your daughter if she lies with a man out of wedlock. Are
you comfortable with a one-word label to which
I get to apply whatever meaning suits me?
But more logically, you are guilty of using your conclusion as your premise.
"Your honour: You don't need evidence, just use your eyes! He looks like a criminal! All people of his colour are criminals!"
Believers are hideously bad at logic when it comes to their beliefs. You give them a bad name.
I wasn’t aware I was defending anything.
If you weren't trying to defend your own beliefs, you wouldn't have to call anyone else a liar.
And so we have other believer who sticks their fingers in their ears and says
lalala. All they have to do is outright deny what they hear, claiming they can tell when people are lying - and reduce them from thinking humans to one-word labels - and they can wrap themselves in a blanket of their own beliefs. Same thing - every time.
Are there any believers out there who aren't lost in their own Echo Chamber?