RE: No rational case for God = increasingly desperate attacks on atheists
July 10, 2014 at 11:16 am
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2014 at 11:21 am by Simon Moon.)
(July 10, 2014 at 10:10 am)ManMachine Wrote: Atheism is a faith. As much as there is no scientific evidence to prove the existence of deities, there is none to prove the non-existence of a deities either. Taking up a position of either asserting they exist or asserting they do not exist requires a leap of faith.
I am getting less and less impressed with your critical thinking ability the more you post.
Atheism is simply the response to the claim made by theists that a god exists. It is not the claim that gods do not exist.
It requires zero faith to disbelieve an unsupported claim. ZERO.
Quote:As much as theists should not fill vacuums in knowledge with their god, atheists should not fill vacuums in knowledge with the lack of a god, both are factually unsubstantiated positions unless they are prepared to accept theism and atheism are both positions of faith.
Please list examples of atheists doing this.
Quote:The most anyone can say factually is, we do not know.
The vast majority of atheists do not claim to know, with absolute certainty, that a god or gods do not exist.
(July 10, 2014 at 5:30 am)ManMachine Wrote: There are many Christian values at the heart of contemporary Western atheism and it does not bode well that most atheists are ignorant of them.
Name one worthy value that could only come from Christianity, and could not have come, or did not come, from purely secular sources.
The famous 'golden rule' predates the Abrahmic religions by centuries.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
