RE: Personal relationships with deities
October 13, 2015 at 12:59 pm
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2015 at 1:00 pm by Crossless2.0.)
Esquilax wrote: "God can't shoulder the burden of proof, and so there's a certain stripe of theist who will argue that god doesn't need to be subjected to the burden of proof, because he would fail if we tried that."
Then there are those theists who will say that God can shoulder the burden of proof (and why not, since he is allegedly all-powerful) but chooses not to because unambiguous, compelling evidence of his existence would somehow violate our alleged free will. But when pressed to explain why their god prefers unfounded belief in his existence instead of knowledge, they'll toss out a few Bible verses and then change the subject as quickly as possible.
Then there are those theists who will say that God can shoulder the burden of proof (and why not, since he is allegedly all-powerful) but chooses not to because unambiguous, compelling evidence of his existence would somehow violate our alleged free will. But when pressed to explain why their god prefers unfounded belief in his existence instead of knowledge, they'll toss out a few Bible verses and then change the subject as quickly as possible.
