Perhaps Israel shouldn't have killed six Hezbollahs just a few days earlier.
Israel, Lebanon brace for possible Hezbollah retaliation after Israeli attack - The Washington Post
I see nothing wrong with cherry-picking.
No single religion has a monopoly on ethical goodness and those that preach "it's their way or be damned" are just divisive.
Not sure what happened there but my post was...
That definition was probably written by a Christian.
Atheists don't believe that gods exist; plural, you see and not singular.
Another interesting post - thank you.
Maybe I'm being over-simplistic but what you're saying is that fields of study, rather than specific theories, represent our best possible explanations?
Absolutely.
The only people who continually labour that false argument are the creationists.
After all, why should they listen to what science has to say when they have magic?
Yes indeed.
Although "failed hypotheses" seems as good a way as any to describe the hundreds, maybe thousands, of gods that people have claimed existed.
Agreed
We have our hypotheses but our best explanations are as set out in our theories.
We can explain certain aspects of our universe with those theories.
Gods and goddesses remain in the realm of the imagined.