RE: No rational case for God = increasingly desperate attacks on atheists
July 10, 2014 at 11:31 am
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2014 at 11:44 am by Whateverist.)
(July 10, 2014 at 10:10 am)ManMachine Wrote: The most anyone can say factually is, we do not know.
MM
Well, we can also say factually that we do not care, provided we in fact don't.
(July 10, 2014 at 11:16 am)Simon Moon Wrote:(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.
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.
I don't disagree with anything you've said, Simon. But I do think it is okay to criticize the minority atheist view that gods do not exist. There are plenty of 7's around and many of these seem to suffer from the same debilitating symptoms of fundamentalism as their theist counterparts.
