(November 1, 2014 at 6:16 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I can claim it. Just like you can claim there is no effect of God and we can't witness it. Just like you can claim we don't know if we are a soul or not. Sure, we both are allowed to claim it, it's another thing if we say we won an argument over or have proven the case by our claim.
Oh, so now you're in the business of equivocating, that rejections of your claims as unsupported are claims in and of themselves? Not gonna fly; without evidence to suggest the existence of the soul- and merely pointing at a thing that already exists, apparently sans soul, and claiming that that is evidence based on an ad hoc rationalization won't work- then not accepting the claim that there is such a thing is perfectly rational.
Much as you might like to pretend it's otherwise, this is not some even playing field where you have your assertions and atheists have theirs, and none of us have any advantage. No, what's happening is that you're making ontologically positive claims- the kind that entail a burden of proof- and we're pointing out that there's no reason to believe them.
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