(October 17, 2010 at 8:10 pm)dave4shmups Wrote: The doctrine of the self-existence of God is one that I was clinging to when I was a Christian, but I don't know how to refute it. I did join "Ask an Atheist" on Facebook, and asked there, but I haven't gotten a reply yet.I don't even know why you would want to bother refuting it. Its a bare assertion and therefore doesn't need to be refuted. Min summed it up you can give any fabrication any properties you want and they cannot be refuted, but also not proven.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.