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RE: "God doesn't Exist just like Unicorns don't Exist?"
December 21, 2016 at 4:33 am
Gods, unicorns, leprechauns, ghosts, angels, goblins...belief in all manner of supernatural beings can be related by the quote from the great Bertrand Russell:
'It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.'
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RE: "God doesn't Exist just like Unicorns don't Exist?"
December 21, 2016 at 5:00 am
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I just realized the letters boru are a subset of the letters robvalue. Make of that what you will. The remaining letters spell vale.
I am Boru in a vale? It's a cryptic crossword clue.
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RE: "God doesn't Exist just like Unicorns don't Exist?"
December 21, 2016 at 5:05 am
We are clearly long-lost etymological cousins, in some degree or other.
'Briansoddingboru' anagrams to 'birdbrain god onus'. 'robvalue' anagrams to 'a rub love'. Coincidence? I think not.
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RE: "God doesn't Exist just like Unicorns don't Exist?"
December 21, 2016 at 7:08 am
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(December 20, 2016 at 11:03 pm)RiddledWithFear Wrote: I'm not entirely understanding this.
Some atheists equate the probability of the existence of God to the probability of the existence of Unicorns.[...]
That's false equivalence. Existence of a unicorn, in its most basic definition (a horse with what looks like a single horn on its forehead), is infinitely more probable than the existence of any god.
We have evidence of a wide variety of horse-like creatures living on Earth. We have evidence of many creatures with a singular horn-like protuberances on their heads, from narwhals to rhinos. The concept of a horse with a horn is not really a feat of imagination.
Nobody has ever demonstrated the existence of anything like an omnipotent magical being, with keen interest in human affairs.
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RE: "God doesn't Exist just like Unicorns don't Exist?"
December 21, 2016 at 11:14 am
You have to understand the mentality of atheists to "get this". Christians always think they're persecuted, atheists really are, though we don't really tend to think about it much. We are under constant assault and it makes us cranky and short with people sometimes. Every one of us has given long, thoughtful, well researched responses to Christians at one point or another only to have the response be, "Nuh uh! God is real and you know it and he's going to burn you forever!" Often it's a lot more sly than that, or it tries to be. "God hasn't given up on you" or "You reject God", things which say "I may be in the pretense of having a civil conversation, but I just stated once again that I am absolutely right in the most condescending way I could without realizing I was being a prick". It wears on you and your conversation style eventually devolves to things that are short, powerful and pointed. I spent hours delivering the evidence to a JW once that no, there IS NO huge debate among scientists about evolution, it is pretty universally accepted in the scientific community. That was a year or two ago and he still doesn't believe it. So now I don't waste my time with facts. I just zing him when the chance arises, make him squirm a little. Why? Because that's what he wants. He's not interested in an honest conversation. He's not interested in facts. He wants a witless back and forth that he can pretend is a battle of wits. And it amuses me to go into this battle being the only one armed.
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RE: "God doesn't Exist just like Unicorns don't Exist?"
December 21, 2016 at 11:17 am
RiddledWithFear Wrote:I'm not entirely understanding this.
Some atheists equate the probability of the existence of God to the probability of the existence of Unicorns. I understand this is because both of the supernatural creatures have no evidence of their existence and thus are extremely improbable, but some atheists use the "unicorn" argument for the justification for them saying God doesn't exist. Isn't that more of a cop-out? Thanks in advance.
It's more like 'If you don't believe in unicorns, you should be able to understand why I don't believe in your God/god'.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
Off I go!
