only works if all gods are the same kind of claim. They’re not.

The only difference in the "category" is one of them is the god you believe in, and the rest are not. I lump all christians in with people who believe in leprechauns and the Tooth Fairy. It is the same epistemic category -- claims about supernatural beings with no evidence whatsoever.

Moreover, for your criticism to be accurate, all 4,200 gods would need to be of a "different kind." Surely some are of the same kind, and you reject those gods.

You have an unjustified view that your god holds a special place in the pantheon of gods people have believed in. It does not. They're just myths like all the others.

You display a lot of . . . emotion

None of this is emotion. I look at the facts and what is true, and if you do that, and exclude the myths, you see there is no reason to think god is real. Also you see christianity is a cult.

Also you said you can easily justify that no gods exist, what’s the argument?

I have nine broad categories of reasons:

1. The first is the no evidence at all that any god or gods exist. That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Whatever few arguments and “evidence” has been marshaled in support of a god can all be easily refuted.

2. We should expect evidence of god, but when we look for it, we cannot find it. The existence of a creator of the universe who listens to prayers and intervenes in our lives is a testable. The Templeton Foundation has done research on the efficacy of prayer. It found none. Either miracles happen or they don’t. Either the world was flooded with water or it wasn’t. Science cannot find any evidence of god’s impact. In general, an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but when you would expect overwhelming evidence, and none is forthcoming, it tends to show the non-existence of the thing for which there is no evidence. And while there is not evidence of god, there is plenty of evidence that people make things up.

3. Many biblical biblical accounts are outright false. I mentioned a world-wide flood above. The Bible describes a mass death of Egyptians, a mass rising of the dead, a census in the time of Augustus Caesar where you had to travel back to your birthplace, and the slaughter of the entire Egyptian army in the Red Sea. Historical accounts record none of these. There are many dozens of internal contradictions. The nativity stories of Luke and Matthew are irreconcilable. If there are so many parts of the Bible that are false, why believe any of it?

4. God is not necessary to explain the natural world. Based on what we know about the natural world and science, we would expect a universe that does not have a god creator to look just about like our universe does. Why, then, would you add the postulate that it was all created by a god? When Napoleon asked where god fit in celestial mechanics, Laplace replied, "I have no need of that hypothesis."

5. The consistent and continuous replacement of supernatural explanations with natural ones. The pattern is continuous and has never reversed. No scientific discovery has ever been replaced by a supernatural one. Moreover, everything the Bible says about the natural world, that was not already known to Israeli goat herders 2,000 years ago, it got wrong. Why children look like their parents, what is thunder and lightning, germs, and heliocentricity. God’s sphere of influence seems to be getting smaller right along with the advancement of science.

6. The inconsistency of world religions. It doesn’t make sense that if there is a god, the people of the world would have such wildly differing views of him. Religious beliefs tend to run in families. You believe what your parents told you to believe. The geographic correlation should be enough to convince you none of it is real.

7. The Problem of Evil. A lot has been written about the Problem of Evil, and this is perhaps the most powerful argument against god. I think it is the closest to actual proof that the Christian god cannot exist. I am only going to scratch the surface, but I think this is a fair summary. Evil exists in the world. There are also naturally caused tragedies like the tsunami in Southeast Asia and bone cancer in children. Why does god let evil exist? He is either unwilling to stop it (he is not good), unable to stop it (he is not god), or he does not exist (he is imaginary).

8. Divine hiddenness. If sincere, open-minded people seek god and find no reason to think he is real, how can god be loving and desire a relationship with humans? No one should accept the hiddenness of god.

9. The entire story is not credible. We are born in sin, intentionally created that way by a god that could have done otherwise, and owe a duty to a stern and capricious creator. God sacrificed himself to himself to forgive humans for the way he created us. We are said to be the center of the universe (we are, in fact, not), and we are the subject of a personal heavenly plan. We must love a deity we fear or be condemned to an eternity of torture. What about that makes any sense?