Ray Comfort Feels So Threatened By Atheists . . .

. . . that his only defense is to flat-out deny that we exist!

They, as the Bible says, “hate God without cause.” They see the expression of His utterly brilliant handiwork. He gave them the gift of life itself, and painted the landscape of this world with breath-taking beauty, and they scrape any semblance of His name from the canvas. They distain (sic) the God who gave them life simply because of His moral government.

As the nun on "House" said, you can't hate God and not believe in him, so Ray obviously believes that we really do believe in God -- we're just pretending we don't.

The only thing I have to say in response is that Ray is absolutely right to view the existence of atheists as a threat. Whether he regards it as rational or irrational, the very fact that nonbelief exists contradicts the most central tenet of evangelism: that God, an all-powerful being, has a very, very important message for all of humanity. If this were true, then God would deliver that message directly, and even if we rejected the message, scraped his name off the painting or whatever, we would nonetheless have to admit that, yes, I received a message from that God fellow, and yes, that's what he told me.

Ray is smart enough, I think, to realize that his worldview entails precisely that state of affairs, and that the absence of that state of affairs disproves his worldview. His only hope, then, is to hold the position that that state of affairs does, in fact, obtain -- and, because such a position flies in the face of common sense, he can only suspend his own skepticism with respect to it by stating it -- publicly, repeatedly, and very loudly. Michael Martin's paper "Are There Really No Atheists?" refutes this position well enough for any purposes, and I refer the interested reader to that link for more information.

So Ray Comfort denies the existence of atheists because he has to -- because the only alternative is to become one himself. And then where would his paycheck come from, to say nothing of his daily ego boosts?