I take faith to mean confidence in a belief in this case, because, Atheists are generally confident that there is not a God. That’s where your whole Pascal’s Wager thing would otherwise come into play again.
Do you believe in them for NPO’s? Because that is pretty much what a Religion is, same tax breaks, different category.
Not really. I don’t know if you read the whole OP, you probably did, but this whole thing was pretty much a joke. Not even pretty much, it just was a joke.
That depends on who the aggressor is, does it not? It seems to me that when you have people coming to your door, taking you aside, giving you pamphlets, putting books in hotel rooms, and AND practically owning the media for a time (not so much now) yeah, you’re the one on the defense.
Who said I am not a Theist? I didn’t.
I didn’t say I am an Atheist either.
Nor did I say I am Agnostic.
It may or may not make them change. Actually, nothing can make them change, an Athiest will impart information and then they decide whether or not to change. In any case, we’ll make our money off of Atheists, but if we can get more people to be Atheists, then that is more money.
Ultimately, the Chruch itself is Secondary in terms of money making, it might even take a small loss. If it does that’s fine, because one of our Merchandise Corporations can make a tax deductible donation to make up for it. We’re going to make most of our money off of Merchandising, but we need the actual Church to lend an air of legitimacy to the Merchandise.
It’ll be Ok. Even if we fail to convert one single Theist, I still think the Market is there for this venture to be profitable.