A lot of us old timers still adhere to one of Hitchen’s sayings: “Claims require evidence. Extraordinary claims require extaordinary evidence.”
Regardless of how much we might like to believe something is so, out of respect for ourselves and others, we let the facts lead us, and not vice versa.
“A lot of us old timers still adhere to one of Hitchen’s sayings: “Claims require evidence. Extraordinary claims require extaordinary evidence.—
That should justify agnosticism not atheism.
There is no incontrovertible evidence that a “god” does not exist. A dyed in the wool atheist lacks “extraordinary evidence” even more so than a born again Christian.