(December 20, 2016 at 8:52 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: 1: That God(s) exist is true.
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2: What can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
(December 20, 2016 at 8:52 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Someone who considers proposition 1 true is a theist.
And therefore - a child, a gullible moron, a nutjob, or a liar, since that's how we categorize those, who claim to believe unevidenced propositions, based solely on magical thinking, motivated reasoning, as well as arguments from popularity and authority.
(December 20, 2016 at 8:52 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: What do you call someone who considers proposition 2 true?
Uhm... Whatever his/her name is?...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw