@Devonian
"Ironically, I cannot conceive of you...not you literally... but anyone who claims they cannot conceive of god. "
1. that's not ironic. that is in no way contrary of what'd we'd expect of you.
2. way to INITIALLY state that you're close minded. that's a GREAT debate tactic
"We are all born with a sense of God in us."
No scientific evidence for this.
"This is why every civilization known has (or had) some sort of god in their belief system."
false logic. you're stating that the ONLY reason why ALL civilizations would believe in a spiritual deity of some sort is because a deity MUST exist. There is no formal proof for this, and a simple counter example would be that modern humans may have not developed together, but the initial customs passed down branched off into many different civilizations, so it would take MANY fewer initial social presuppositions. Humans are rational creatures, but when faced with the magnitude of existence and the earth all at once, without accumulated evidence to refute most assertions, things such as clouds and lightning and the sun and moon are all attributed to gods.
Does this NECESSITATE a god? no.
"Yes, many will deny that sense and claim God doesn't exist. But we all have it nevertheless."
you just can't prove it.
"But that begs the question: "If we are all born with a sense of God in us, why would anyone deny his existence?" Well... because if God exists, then we will be accountable to him for our actions. And we all know that we could not hold up to the scrutiny of a perfect being. And so, rather than admitting our failings, we deny God exists."
so are people who DO believe god exists just masochists? that'd explain Opus Dei, but most of my snobby friends who keep trying to get me the into their organized religion/cults tend to be PRETTY happy being subservient to some all powerful god figure. if i remember correctly, so were quite a few germans in the 1940s.