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Ateists have always had the stiffest and most suffocating, formalized cult that could possibly exist. They are all completely wrong, and they have always known it, but conceit makes them think that they are "special" somehow or "intelligent" whereas they are not.
Philosophical argument that God exists antedates the Sumerian culture. They were the inventors of radical/rational thought, and systematically proved that God exists, and is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. That proof alone is much more than ample, but rational investigators have gone much, much further.
The original atheist cult sprang up about 1913 BCE, south of the Dead Sea. It was a group of prostitutes returning from their cult brothel in Thebes. They saw the outcome of the Battle of Nine Kings (Genesis chapter 14) and decided to do a little body looting. Some of the wounded men on that hellish battlefield objected, so the over-age prostitutes killed them. They developed an insatiable lust for power. They called themselves Ra Mentep (disobedient against God). The current cult is called Ramatep with a sisterhood in India, known as Thuggee. They share one ridiculous belief: the lust for power to make people do as they should not do, and are so sadistic that they delight to see their victims suffer for months and die horribly.
Isaac Newton published the first truly rigorous scientific proof of God that we know of, but there was plenty of scientific proof before Newton. He merely formalized what was already proven. He proved that God has a standard of stewardship: God knows who to trust, and who not to trust, seen by our actions.
Einstein added more proof in 1903. He scientifically proved that God exists and holds us accountable. In 1905, he published his first papers on Relativity.
So far, we have rigorously proved that atheism is a cultic religion, as formal and secretive as any other cult, and we proved that their religion is utter nonsense, yet they persist in their disproved and discredited beliefs.
That is why atheists play the games that they play, regardless that these games are just plain dense. They will do quite literally anything to reduce others to atheist superstition, and even there, they have set a four-millennia old track record of embarrassing failure.
The encouraging fact is that most people don't stay with atheism, even after they are brainwashed down to it in college.
That alone proves that some of us keep an open mind despite atheist cult indoctrination, stricture, and prejudice.
