How would u respond if someone put this statement to u. "Because of God, Atheists exist.
Without God, atheism would no longer exist."
I wouldn't respond because who ever would make such a statement would be someone of such low intelligence that it would be a lesson in futility in responding.
I would disagree. What would be more likely true, and where their error in logic comes from, is that if there were no god believers (i.e. theists) then there would be nobody who would label themselves an atheist, because people do not usually label themselves in opposition to beliefs that do not exist, or that nobody holds.
So regardless of whether or not people exist who are theists, god either does or doesn’t exist. If theism had never evolved as part of our cultures, then nobody would label themselves as an atheist, but also, given the fact that there is no evidence for the existence of a god, everyone would now technically be an atheist even though they wouldn’t label themselves that way. They would still lack a belief in gods.
I stink at logic, but I guess I'd say "Because a belief in god exists, atheists exist."
I'd say
Because of man, gods were invented/speculated.
If a god would definitively show it's self, then atheism would be decimated... (Except I'd have to put it simpler or go step by step through a bunch of arguments with them)
I would say that is a self-serving and circular argument. It predisposes that Atheism is some kind of “faith” or “religion”. It is nether. It is the absents of “faith”, “religion” or a “god”. It would exist if the fanciful belief in an imaginary friend existed or not. It just wouldn't be called Atheism it would just be called “normal”.
Isn't this the same logic behind Satan and his Holey Moley creator.
IMO...Atheism has always existed...it just never required a 'label' to define it until god & religion were created to upset the balance.
You are assuming that a god does exist, and you have yet to prove this god's existence, so until you do, this argument is null and void. Although, in a way, you are correct, if we knew for a fact that there was no god, there would no longer be a need for atheism...and there would also no loner be a need for theism.
I would probably just blow them off and say" yeah, whatever". There is no discussion about it. If someone is so arrogant and closed minded to say something like this, they are not discussing, they are pronouncing.