Defaithed

Well said. In debates, one of the goofy yet common things we hear is, "If you atheists don't believe God even exists, why do you bother railing against Him?" The response, which you've no doubt heard (or spoken!) many times, is "We don't rail against a fictional God; we rail against the very real belief in God, and the very real human problems that this belief causes."

Truth be told, I'm happy to rail against both the belief and the nasty God character himself. Disliking God doesn't conflict with believing he doesn't exist; it's no different from booing and hissing Darth Vader. I know Darth is fictional; if he were real, I'd hate him. Simple stuff.

All that said, I'll disagree with the idea that atheists who believe God doesn't exist are as irrational as the theists. True, we can't prove either one, but that doesn't make each one as likely or unlikely as the other. To add the obvious example, the likes of which you've probably heard already: we can't disprove invisible magic unicorns on the far side of Venus. Does that mean that reasonable certainty in their non-existence is irrational? Maybe it does technically, but how about practically?