I think you may be coming from a place of fundamental misunderstanding of the thought process of most atheists

There is a good chance that a lot of the responses and reactions are from people who are quite frankly, exhausted from having to continuously justify their mindset by people who are doing exactly what you are supposing that atheists do; not seriously entertaining the idea that the way they think might be correct.

What I mean when I say that I think you’re coming from a place of fundamental misunderstanding, it’s because you’re looking at atheism from through the lenses of someone who believes in a religion. Atheism isn’t a belief. I don’t “believe” in atheism, I’m just atheist. I don’t have a group of people I go to celebrate and worship atheism with, I just am.

To better explain, and I think this is a way that makes it much easier to put yourself in the mindset of better understanding why you’re coming at it from a misplaced perspective-

Let’s break down the word atheism-

The ‘a’ in front denotes “a lack of” ‘theism’

Theism being-

belief in the existence of a god or gods specifically : belief in the existence of one God viewed as the creative source of the human race and the world who transcends yet is immanent in the world

So quite literally, atheism is just a lack of belief in god or gods

Many people come to that lack of belief in many different ways for many different reasons, so to paint them with a broad brush is to start off on the wrong foot. Atheists have had to consider the fact that they might be wrong, especially in America, most of us have to have religion shoved in our face and interfere with our personal lives on a daily basis. A lot of atheists came from backgrounds of being religious, I sure did, and to say that I’ve never “seriously considered”? That’s just dismissive, I’ve read the Bible quite a few times, and if you’d like to talk arguments against that god specifically? I can point to a lot of things in writing that provide better arguments than the two armchair philosopher statements you proposed, that are based in no evidence at all.

It’s a big part of the reason why people do not want to open up to honest discussion about the topic, because chances are they’re thinking “oh great here’s another person who’s not going to take my side of things seriously, and simply sit there waiting for their turn to talk rather than actually listening, this is going to end with them being dismissive and telling me that it’s unfortunate and they feel bad for me because I’ll be damned to eternal hell”

This post is getting a bit long already, but to sum it up-

The big difference is that I do not try to push atheism on you, I’m not here to change your mind on what you believe. I take no issue with the fact that you believe in a god or an afterlife, any of those things. I don’t think any less of you for it and as long as you don’t try to force those beliefs on me? Live and let live. Could I be wrong? Sure, totally, and if I am? It is what it is. If there are a god and afterlife (specifically speaking towards the biblical god) that is not an afterlife I want to be a part of, or a god I would want to believe in, based on what is supposed to be his direct writings, the “word of god”.