RE: Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?
December 11, 2016 at 5:54 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2016 at 5:59 pm by Mudhammam.)
(December 11, 2016 at 5:30 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Yeah, that there's solipsism, essentially. But we cannot think something into reality, can we?Okay, so let's parse it like this: Some claims about God purport to be true (God exists) but not factual in the sense of verification; others more specifically claim to be both (God came to earth, say, in the form a politician). Do you agree with me that an atheist is mistaken, perhaps naively so, to reply to the theist who is asserting God as a truth (nay, THE truth) in "necessarily abstract" terms (rather than as "a fact") with the statement that "claims demand evidence"?
Truth is necessarily abstract. Facts are not.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza