(March 20, 2016 at 11:42 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: I mean, even if everyone here declared themselves a "gnostic atheist" right now, what practical difference would that really make to anybody, including the theists? Is it just the satisfaction of being able to say "well you're making a claim TOO!" that you want, Chad? Even if it were so, that wouldn't bolster the case for God/s at all. It wouldn't make the position, "a God exists," any more likely to be correct. The evidence, or lack thereof, still speaks for its self.
Lack of evidence for god? Haven't you ever seen the centuries-old, baseless assertions of Aquinas?

Wooters has this really big hard-on for redefining and dictating the positions of those who disagree with him for them; he's already said in this thread that he thinks most people using the "lack of belief" definition of atheism secretly believe there are no gods, and who the hell knows how he determined that, but actually supporting his wild assertions has never been his bag. This is just another attempt to "win" the god debate by negative means, just subtracting and twisting the stated positions of the opposition instead of simply providing evidence, because he has none. Because everyone knows you can get to positive evidence if you just pretend anyone who disagrees with you secretly believes something just as irrational as you do!

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