A View on Atheist

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Comparing Mein Kampf to God Delusion is not going to get you any point there. Though I didn't agree with what he said I would go as far as to compare it with the racist bigotry that is in Mein Kampf.

'There is no empirical evidence that currently exists to support the notion that God exists, therefore, I do not believe in God'
'There is no empirical evidence that currently exists to support the notion that God exists, therefore, God's existence is unlikely'

So you find yourself having a thought there maybe a God while you believe it be unlikely? While the others believe it to say god doesn't exist. Why does it matter? So you can find solace in a hint of the possibility of God existing?

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I knew mentioning Mein Kampf may cause some confusion. If you look carefully at what I said, I made no reference to the content of either book, I was refering to the style in which they are both written (a hubristic rant),. I agree with you that, if we are talking about the subject, then there is no comparison - Mein Kampf is filth.

I do not find solace in the fact that a God may exist. In fact, since I am rather lapsed in the religious department, it would be somewhat frightening. No, I just like to align my views as closely to the facts as they exist at this moment in time.

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First of it depends on what God you are talking about. I wholly dismiss the chance of any specific God man has created as being completely impossible. I hold a slight chance that some sort of impersonal God, such as the one deist describe, exists but not much.

Second, the first sentence is not being closed minded, it is simply a statement based on the probability of a God existing. If I were to ask you to guess a ten digit sequence of numbers, the chance of you guessing the same one I am thinking of are incredibly small. Therefore, I can say with relative certainty, that you will not guess that sequence correctly. Is there a chance you could? Sure, but not enough to keep an open mind to possibility of it happening.

Also, the second sentence is not more open minded, it is just that you seem to have come to a different conclusion on the probability of a God existing. You keep coming off as if somehow holding onto the likelihood of a God existing makes you more enlightened than everyone else, which makes you no different from the fundamentalists you claim are so wrong.

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I would certainly keep an open mind that someone could possibly guess a sequence of 10 numbers.

Fundamentalism, for me, is a word that applies to someone who knows the answer even when the information to provide the answer is not available. In the case of Christians, they believe that God exists but they base it on pure faith and are not interested in facts. In the case of fundamentalist atheists, they believe that God does not exist and have closed their mind to the possibility even though they may actually be wrong.