RE: militant atheists with circular ideology
April 22, 2011 at 6:01 pm
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2011 at 6:04 pm by Doubting Thomas.)
Quote:I've never understood why some atheists use suffering to disprove God, but never see joy as proof of Him. It's a circular ideology that makes little sense
He really needs to read up on what circular logic really is. Circular logic means having two (or more) parts of an argument which each rely on each other to prove the other. Such as, "God exists because it says so in the bible, and the bible is true because it's the word of God." It's like Bugs Bunny pulling himself out of a magician's hat by his own ears.
Saying that suffering disproves God but joy isn't proof of him is not circular. An all-good, kind, loving god wouldn't allow people to suffer, and people experiencing joy doesn't mean it has to be because of a god. In fact, there's no evidence whatsoever that we need a god to experience any of our emotions.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
