(May 9, 2016 at 10:28 am)Red_Wind Wrote: Because you can ask an informed atheist a bunch of questions regarding their lack of belief and they would be able to answer them in a logical way. Ask a theist of any religion the same questions regarding their beliefs and they will either give you word salad, circular reasoning or unsupported claims (just to name a few).
Yeah, that's one that's become very apparent to me since I joined this site... the whole playing chess with a pigeon thing. It just makes it all the more clear that it's psychology that you're dealing with - people's rationalisations etc - rather than any real solid arguments. If it was solid reasoning it wouldn't require devious (wilful or not) methods to debate.
