(May 21, 2014 at 1:07 pm)Godschild Wrote: I can prove I'm a Southern Baptist, I have my name listed as a member of the Southern Baptist Church, where's your proof. For all I know you are a pretender and worship Baal.

GC

Is this... is this seriously a thing, that you're doing?

(May 21, 2014 at 1:42 pm)Bad Writer Wrote: Records can be falsified, although I have no reason to believe you would do that, GC. I have a feeling you try to be genuinely honest.

This is actually a very good example of a claim that requires little-to-no evidence. The same honestly goes for my claim that I'm an atheist. And on that, you can either take my word for it or leave it.

The question is, are you going to start treating me like anything other than an atheist now due to your sudden and unexpected bout of mistrust? That would really be very silly and will get us nowhere in discussions.

Atheist require proof from Christians and I've given mine, all I ask is the atheist do the same as I was willing to do. I've seen all to often that atheist say all claims need proof, am I suppose to just ignore the claim that all claims require proof, or do atheist believe that only applies to Christians, personally I do not think that was the meaning. By the way I'm not doing this out of mistrust and the way you answer my posts we get nowhere any way, so if you believe it's mistrust I'm showing it wouldn't matter in our discussion anyway.

GC

You didn't provide any proof, you strung together a bunch of words.

(May 20, 2014 at 8:18 pm)Lek Wrote:

(May 20, 2014 at 7:51 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Oh, so what decides who are officially Christians and who aren't?

God does, not people.

So then why do a lot of Christians (theists per se) repeatedly use the no true Scotsman fallacy?

And how do you know this god thing decides on who the 'true' Christians are? Has it told you, personally?

(May 21, 2014 at 3:20 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: You didn't provide any proof, you strung together a bunch of words.

GC doesn't understand what constitutes proof. He hinted at so much by saying he is a Southern Baptist.

If youre an atheist you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest, with: a Herring!

(May 21, 2014 at 7:20 pm)Luckie Wrote: If youre an atheist you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest, with: a Herring!

(May 21, 2014 at 7:27 pm)Beccs Wrote:

(May 21, 2014 at 7:20 pm)Luckie Wrote: If youre an atheist you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest, with: a Herring!

Kudo coz:

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life"

Other than my purpose and meaning in life to live as long as I can with the highest quality possible-- I also like to stay vigilant on the nothing/something issue.

(May 21, 2014 at 3:21 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote:

(May 20, 2014 at 8:18 pm)Lek Wrote: God does, not people.

So then why do a lot of Christians (theists per se) repeatedly use the no true Scotsman fallacy?

And how do you know this god thing decides on who the 'true' Christians are? Has it told you, personally?

No. The scriptures tell me. They state the criteria.