RE: Why do religious people desperately want to class Atheism as a religion?
November 25, 2015 at 12:21 pm
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2015 at 12:23 pm by Whateverist.)
(November 24, 2015 at 6:27 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 24, 2015 at 2:20 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Yeah.. Again, the gnostic murder trial witness "knows" (i.e. is convinced by his observed convincing evidence) the guilt of the plaintiff. The others could be Agnostic to his guilt, but believe he is guilty because of their "gut feelings"even though they know there isn't convincing evidence.
That's what I'm saying though. There are plenty of people who believe in God because they have seen/experienced some form of evidence for themselves, not necessarily just because of "gut feelings."
But surely you don't claim to have any 'evidence' which amounts to more than your appraisal of otherwise mundane happenings. I mean I assume you didn't get transported up to heaven and stand before a throne or anything else which couldn't be explained otherwise? If that is right then in some sense your evidence does depend on your gut feelings regarding otherwise ordinary sense data. Hell, I don't think you have to have evidence for everything you believe. I know I don't.
