(March 22, 2017 at 12:29 am)ma5t3r0fpupp3t5 Wrote: There are two problems with this line of thinking. One is that it assumes that atheists are consciously refusing to accept the evidence, and therefore the claim that God exists. This is done to make atheism appear as if it were not a neutral/the default position. The truth is that atheists are UNCONVINCED (hence lack a belief) that the claim "God exists" is true. It doesn't require an active effort to lack a belief in something, and it's certainly not a "refusal" to accept the evidence, all it is is that the evidence is unconvincing to atheists. Atheists may give their reasons for why they are unconvinced (which they definitely should), but no one is "trying" to be an atheist.
But this messes with the theist mind set that is convinced that we must secretly believe in god but reject the truth because for some reason we hate god.
This is because they cannot conceive of anyone not believing. To them god is so obvious that we must believe but actively reject the truth.
I find this quite strange as to me the whole god concept is ridiculous and I simply can't see how anyone takes the idea seriously.
So I come at this from the reverse of the theist stand point their whole thought process is a s alien to me as that of of chip monk. I cant even imagine how they view the world.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.