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Why Do Atheists Criticize People's Beliefs?
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Why Do Atheists Criticize People's Beliefs?
(May 21, 2017 at 3:25 pm)Alex K Wrote: Apart from the wording, it's a question of burden of proof. If some people claim to know an almighty creator figure of the universe, that's a positive claim. If the claim isn't logically justifiable it is probably wrong and I as someone who is on the default position of not claiming a personal creator figure on those grounds am right to criticise this belief as probably false. Vice versa, criticising the atheist holding the default position of no claim, without having proper evidence, makes you wrong.

Ironically, the words in bold seem themselves to be unjustified. What grounds do you have for claiming this? Obviously, if you can justify a statement logically, it is probably right, but that in and of itself doesn't mean that if you can't, it's probably wrong.
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Why Do Atheists Criticize People's Beliefs? - by Valyza1 - May 21, 2017 at 4:27 pm

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