A related prayer: "Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered, and let them that hate Him flee from before His face. As smoke vanishes, so let them vanish; as wax melts before the fire, so let the demons perish from the presence of them that love God and who sign themselves with the sign of...
It doesn't sound very grand at all. I was just saying that some atheists (not all) make claims similar to that in the OP because they are intellectually dead, lacking the wherewithal to see the comedy of it. All my opinion of course.
Would you consider "some things are and some things can be" and all that follows that kind of thought to be a metaphysical claim or something else? Just asking to clarify (for I had considered those sorts of things metaphysical claims which are justifiable).
That reminds me of one of my favorite sayings/conceptions of Scripture: all of nature is like a picture-book and the Scriptures are the words by which we can read it.
An option to do something stupid actually came up immediately after this. I used my head and now it won't be done, instead I will have a lot of popcorn. Blessed be wisdom. As it says in Proverbs: "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding."...