(December 24, 2015 at 4:18 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(December 24, 2015 at 3:27 pm)Delicate Wrote: Your analogy fails. In trying to draw an analogy between shooting pains and God belief, you say it is a way for the feeble minded to explain things to themselves without actually finding out what actually is going on.The medieval people had reasons to believe in the fairies and elves, why else would they believe. My analogy does fail despite your refusal to accept it. By the way not finding an argument convincing is a good reason to not believe it. If I failed to convince you that I used to be a popstar would you still be wrong to not believe I used to be a popstar? In your head you believe everything everyone ever tells you without any evidence. This is not how you operate or you would also believe in Shiva and all the other pantheon of gods around the world. You don't believe in them so why do you find it so hard to accept that we don't believe in your god OR all the others.
But we have no reason to believe this is true of either belief, even if the beliefs are wrong.
Your argument rests on a failed analogy.
Now do you see why I think atheists don't have good reasons for what they believe?
None of this gives us a reason to believe that the motivations behind shooting pains and God belief are as you say they are.
Once again, what is the evidence for this claim?
