(January 9, 2016 at 1:04 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(January 9, 2016 at 12:58 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: No. We just DON'T. "Want" has nothing to do with it. I have corrected you on this TWICE already in this thread. This makes three. Why don't you begin by actually reading and comprehending what people write to you before you throw assertions around. It is very insulting that you refuse to accept my world view. It is the theist's great straw man to say atheists just don't WAN'T to believe. Let it go.
Let's get this straight.
The reason (not for anything else) Theists are convinced by the moral argument or that goodness is linked to God is because they want to believe. Nothing else.
So if this is true Atheists wanting to believe should make them reach the same conclusion as them.
So I'm showing you by your statement, it would mean Atheists don't want to believe.
If you say it's a factor, but not the only reason, then yes Atheists can want or not want to believe, but have different reasons for not believing.
But then you shouldn't say Theists believe simply because they want to either.
So again, let's go back to the question, why do you think Theists (majority of the world) believe goodness is necessarily linked to God?
Mystic,
If there can hypothetically be a god, then there also can hypothetically be NO God, you understand? You don't realize that when you use the word 'hypothetical' you are admitting that your theory can just as well be incorrect (if not MORE likely to be), and you render yourself incapable of proving one way or the other.
Why theists have morality all tied up with God belief is beyond me. Because they were raised with it, maybe? But it is really only a crutch. There are many moral atheists in the world, on these forums, so doesn't that fact alone disprove your "theory"?
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