Can you ever believe that there is no God

[Gearbreak]

This is getting annoying. Can you just accept we're all going to hell and go away?

[The Reality Salesman01]

Great - can you prove the non-existence of evidence?

What an absurd question. Are you asking somebody to debate themselves?

The lack of evidence is a perfectly good reason not to believe a claim. If one wishes to strip the reason of its merit, all they have to do is provide evidence.

Conversely, Seeing evidence is a perfectly good reason to believe a claim, especially if there is an absence of evidence to the contrary.

Example:
I believe nothing can travel faster than the speed of light because evidence supports it. My inability to prove relativity wrong doesn't weaken the theory.

I also don't believe that there is a planet that orbits our sun between Earth and Mars. The complete lack of evidence for a planet-like spehrical object of considerable mass in orbit between our planet and the big red one next to it is good enough for me not to believe that such a planet exists.

[The Grand Nudger]

Can you really know that there is no such thing as God?

I can know that there is no such thing as yours (at least in the sense that you'd insist upon), sure. Easy questions, easy answers. It's the deists of the forum I'm always wanting to grill, not the theists with their ridiculous and, frankly, already failed- gods.

[CapnAwesome]

It's interesting that the title of this thread and what's stated in your sole topic sentence are different things. Can you ever believe there is no god? Can you ever know that there is know god? Two totally different concepts that Theists sometimes have a hard time wrapping their head around as they consider what they believe and what they know to be the same thing.

[Anomalocaris]

Great - can you prove the non-existence of evidence?

No, you can never prove the non-existence of evidence for there being no god.

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Can you really know that there is no such thing as God?

Can you really know that there is no such thing as godless universe?

[archangle]

you can argue against traits of god. Like a person walking on water. But even then its more of a probability thing. You can't really say there is "no god, gods, or higher power". To make that claim, you would need extraordinary evidence to support that extraordinary claim.

[Silver]

You can't really say there is "no god, gods, or higher power". To make that claim, you would need extraordinary evidence to support that extraordinary claim.

I disagree. If there is no evidence for the existence of something, it should be understood that the something in question does not exist. The only extraordinary claim is that in relation to the existence of something that relies upon nothing except faith.

[Darkstar]

Can one ever believe that there is no god? Sure. Can one ever know that there is no god? Technically, no. An omnipotent being could hide himself forever if he really wanted to.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

This is just rediculous.

The guy is effectively spamming all over the forum ignoring all replies and repeating ad nauseum the same tripe over and over and over.

Surely enough is enough. We've all seen this guy isn't here to learn about our answers to his questions. Rather his interest is in attempting to obfuscate replies and twist them to suit his own, indoctrained and warped view.

[Simon Moon]

I disagree. If there is no evidence for the existence of something, it should be understood that the something in question does not exist. The only extraordinary claim is that in relation to the existence of something that relies upon nothing except faith.

Now I will have to disagree with you.

If there is no evidence for the existence of something, it should be understood that there is no justification to believe it exists.

There was once no evidence that microscopic organisms were responsible for some diseases, did not mean they didn't exist.