(December 25, 2015 at 5:19 pm)Stimbo Wrote:I'm not denying anything people believe, per se. I accept that the position they stake out in public is "lack of evidence"(December 25, 2015 at 5:09 pm)Delicate Wrote: That's exactly what I'm doing. I'm just pointing out errors in beliefs.
That's fine, but then you make the category error of insisting that the basic atheist position is the belief that gods do not exist, despite being corrected multiple times by people who somehow think they know more about what they do and do not believe than you do. See, if the only way you can get your arguments to work is by having to mosrepresent your opponents' position, it might not be their position that's the weak one.
I'm just rejecting the undefended asserted redefinition of atheism and giving my reasons for it.
I suppose I'm also pointing out the hypocrisy of people who lack belief and yet claim God doesn't exist. This serves as evidence that what people believe, and what they SAY they believe might not be the same thing.