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The area of conflict between theists and atheists is the fact that theists choose to believe the historical writings of a holy scripture such as The Bible or Koran as a relative or complete truth because the society from which the believer comes from or has decided to become a part of has held these beliefs as traditional fats and have carried them down throughout many generations.

On the other hand atheists do not accept these traditional scriptures as sufficient proof to accept the existence of the deity/deities described in the respective scriptures.

Theists then can be said to be non-skeptics who accept traditional beliefs as fact, through the idea of faith, atheists then are those who are more skeptical and will only take physical fact as sufficient proof for the existence of god.

"You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe."

--Dr. Arroway in Carl Sagan's book "Contact"

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