(May 24, 2016 at 7:27 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: This a.m. I was thinking about how some theists and agnostics challenge atheists to prove that god does not exist. Many, myself included, content ourselves with the knowledge that the burden of proof is on the positive statement. But I was thinking about it further and hit upon the obvious proof that god, as the bible and the Church presents him, does not exist and cannot exist.
How? I’ve never been off this continent, much less in every place in the universe. So how do I know that god does not exist in a place I’ve never been?
Simple.
God, we are told, is omnipresent. But if there’s a place where god does not exist, then he is not omnipresent. I don’t have to go everywhere in the universe. All I have to do is find one place where god does not exist to prove that an omnipresent god does not exist anywhere.
You should know by now, that Christians can tap dance themselves out of any logical inconsistency with their beliefs.
They don't even know when they are doing it. In fact, they are so fooled by their own BS, that they are the ones claiming to be on the stronger logical high ground.
They call it "apologetics".
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
