Abaddon is absolutely correct, that the only reason anyone continues responding to Vinny is that he's such a good sounding board showing why fundamentalism is detrimental to one's mental health.
Vinny can only respond to reasoned argument with the standard Fundy plethora of excuses, lies, strawmen, special pleadings, beggings of the question, sidestepping and so forth -- exactly what we expect from their brothers, JW apologists. Given Vinny's penchant for these things, it would be pointless to rebut his nonsense in detail again.
For me, several things stand out.
(1) Vinny focuses on the notion that atheism is A BAD THING, yet he forgets that most so-called atheists are not strict atheists, but as Richard Dawkins describes himself, what amounts to strong agnostics. An agnostic is someone who hasn't got enough evidence about something to make a certain judgment. Nevertheless, evidence can be strong enough to act in everyday life as if a certain judgment can be made. Dawkins gives the example of someone proposing that a magic teapot orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter. No one can prove with certainty that this magic teapot doesn't exist, but then, no one can prove that it can. And acting as if it doesn't exist gives the same results as believing with certainty that it doesn't. So Dawkins is really an agnostic, and I am too, in exactly the same sense. Such subtleties of thought are lost on someone like Vinny.
(2) No one knows for certain what the origins of the universe or any proposed gods are. Anyone who claims to know for sure is fooling himself. There's no difference in principle between saying, "I believe that God has always existed" and "I believe that the macro-cosmic universe has always existed". Vinny and his ilk engage in massive special pleading by claiming that one is valid and the other is not. How do they 'know' this? "I read it in a book!" they proclaim.
(3) Vinny clearly answered my question, "If God said that it's fun to torture babies, and morally right to do so, and it was pleasing to him for you to do it, would you?", in the affirmative: "If God asked me to do something that I thought was wrong, would I do it anyway? That was a part of your question I missed. My answer is YES." So if God said it was fun to torture babies, Vinny would accede. And Vinny would proceed to torture babies for fun.
Again, these things are what make such blind fundamentalism so dangerous to humanity. Included are the Islamic types who kill in the name of Allah. Such fundamentalists can't distinguish between their delusions and reality, so if they experience a delusion where some god says, "Go! Kill!" they don't have the mental or emotional wherewithal to stand up to the delusion and exercise the moral common sense that most people have and not commit heinous acts.
Again, good job, Vinny!
AlanF