What do 'christians' mean when they ask atheists to be 'open minded'?

Using your logic, when you hear someone say "God doesn't exist", why doesn't that "speak for itself" with equal weight as your wacky aunt. You can't have your cake and eat it too. One or both statements are wrong.

And neither has evidential value greater than the other.

There is no evidence. Just, because someone says they are being possessed by a demon does not make it true. I can call myself a multi-billionaire, but unfortunately it doesn't make it so.

Fact is that people who claim that they are possessed by demons are lying. Just like people who claim to be reincarnations of god. If your a Christian then you probably don't believe in anyone who claims to be some kind of god, but they claim to be.

Why not believe those people? Surely their word is just as good as the people who claim to be possessed. Now you may say "Well how could all of them be lying?"

Well I would ask you this: How come outright non-believers, and skeptics, do not ever become possessed? Why haven't I ever been possessed by a demon? I'm an atheist.

Shouldn't that make me more susceptible to being possessed? Aren't those that dissociate themselves from "god" more vulnerable to do evil? So then how come it is always extremely religious people that become possessed?

Truth is there is absolutely no empirical evidence to support the belief in exorcism, and it's as simple as that.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.