One thing I'm particularly conscious about recently is the difference between me online and me in person. In person, I don't think as fast, I stutter, and of course I find it a lot easier to express a friendly attitude when people can see my face and hear my tone of voice. By contrast, online, I can think about what I want to say, then find a better way to say it. The result is I come across much clearer, but also colder.
Just as I notice a difference in myself in person and online, I find it's very rare to find a real atheist who acts like they do online. But rather than the difference being clarity and tone, it seems to be a difference in intelligent thought. In person, atheists tend to express their points calmly, talking to me like a normal person, and often at least try to understand the points I make in response. But online, atheists seem entirely incoherent, and blissfully unaware that anyone exists but themselves. I also notice, though this of course is not limited to atheists, that whenever my articles receive hostile comments, the view counter does not increase. The topic is being criticised, but the article is not being read. The result is that arguments that have already been addressed in the article get brought up again. And again. And again. Even when a direct reply is sent, it is rarely adequately addressed. Online atheists talk through their opponents, rather than to them. It's like talking to a poorly designed AI, programmed by someone whose first language is not English.
This strange phenomenon has me thinking, what if we are talking to a poorly designed AI, programmed by someone with a different language? Applying atheistic logic, this actually makes perfect sense!
First, let's get to visibility. Atheists love to use the fact they can't see God as a trump card for literally any evidence. But just as I've never seen God, I've never seen an atheist post a Facebook comment. I've seen the comment itself, but I've never seen the atheist post it. in fact, a lot of the time, I don't even know what the atheist looks like. Their profile pictures may be themselves, but also have a high chance of being their pet, a car they like the look of, or even an atheistic meme (which is often just as devoid of intelligence as the comment). So I've never seen an internet atheist, why should I believe they exist?
One might argue that the very existence of a Facebook comment implies the existence of someone to write it. However, the existence of DNA, a vastly more complex language system than anything mankind has ever invented, also absolutely necessitates a designer. Yet, atheists deny that Creator. If God can be denied in spite of such an obviously designed language system, I see no reason to insist an incoherent mess of cliches, grammatical errors, and cuss words was written by anything remotely sentient.
Furthermore, in an effort to oppose the argument from Irreducible Complexity, atheists often say that since living organisms are self-replicating, that argument cannot apply. Now, in reality, this only triples the problem, rather than solving it, but if atheists were any good at perceiving reality, they'd be agnostics at the very least. So let's just apply their logic and point out that in a sense, a bot may well replicate comments. It's not quite the same; you don't need a mommy comment and a daddy comment, but you also don't need intelligent input. A comment left by an AI can be sent repeatedly with no influence by a human being.
One thing internet atheists have in common with AI that is actually quite frustrating to me is the inability to respond intelligently to incoming information. Things you say may be ignored a thousand times, errors you correct will pop up repeatedly throughout the conversation, points you've already addressed will endlessly be brought back up again. It's like your own comment just disappears into the abyss, never being seen by any living being.
At this point in history, since intelligent minds genuinely have invented AI technology capable of posting artificial comments on social media, it is far more believable that internet atheists are imaginary than that they're right. Aside from it requiring far less intelligence to make an atheistic AI than a single living cell, we all know that such technology has been invented.
Of course, it is my belief that atheistic logic is illogical, and so I don't actually believe every atheistic comment on Facebook has been left by an artificial intelligence. Rather, applying the same logic I use as a Christian, I believe almost every atheistic comment on Facebook was left by a real person. I have my doubts about the ones who talk about cosmic Jewish zombies, but most comments were clearly left by people. The problem these people have is that they were left here by God. This is proven by the fact that every cell in their bodies is more complex than the computers with which they blaspheme. If atheistic logic is so bad that it leads to the denial that real people are anything more than a random internet bot, it's probably not worth using.