(June 17, 2016 at 8:35 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(June 17, 2016 at 7:33 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You've met people who claim that gods -can't- exist? The strong atheist position is that they don't, that the statement "at least one god exists" is false...not that they can't.
Do you recall why, by chance? Morbid curiosity, lol.
No, I don't remember the "reasoning" ... I've been online in atheist/free-thought circles for a couple of decades now, and it's lost in the haze of a fifty-year-old brain.
That is my contention, that it is impossible for a god to exist.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy