Dogmatic antiDogmatists

I’ve noticed a tendency of referring to atheists – including myself – as ‘dogmatic’. ‘You atheists are so dogmatic’ D. says to me, before employing all kinds of predictable sophistries (‘God is a way of keeping open the space of what we don’t know’. The exact reverse of the truth btw). It’s a tedious rhetorical trick, for the following reasons. Firstly, as if theists, by contrast, are famously open to the possibility of god’s non-existence, always flirting with the option that their whole belief system is founded on illusion and error. Secondly, it of course begs the question: implying that the issue is still in the balance, it could go either way. This, of course, is precisely what atheists don’t think. (but neither do theists). It’s a similar move to creationists talking about ‘dogmatic evolutionists’; and no doubt there were once ‘dogmatic round-earthers’..