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Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat
God is a pretty blanketed term for a higher power, people will worship it in many different ways. Even if it just comes down to worshiping the driving energy which science accepts. Atheism itself is becoming a really preachy religion that really can't be proven correct any more than theism. I think it's pretty obvious to point out that organized religions are nothing more than corrupted business empires, and the fairy tales that they preach are chocked full of shit, but denial of a power beyond our knowledge is still a little premature.
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I agree with what you are saying, but I would add for clarification...
"Atheism" (a-theism) addresses Theism -- the belief in one god as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation.
When you look at the Theistic belief systems on offer and their claims, there is good reason to doubt they are true.
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The only reasonable answer to the argument is to not know what that power is definitively, admit it, and quit giving a fuck either way.
Immediately dismissing a higher power because a Christian type God doesn't make sense, is as lacking in imagination as jumping on the God bandwagon. 
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Here you seem to assume there is a power. I don't think "power" is the right word and maybe that is just what came to your mind, or maybe it was a Freudian slip.
The reasonable answer is to admit that it is currently unknown whether there is or is not a higher power; not "what that power is definitively".