RE: A Question From Atheists
June 23, 2017 at 12:19 am
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2017 at 12:03 pm by Cyberman.)
(June 23, 2017 at 12:08 am)nosferatu323 Wrote:Quote:Atheists are under no obligation to provide a definition of gods we don't believe in. Theists assert that a god - at least - exists; atheists reject that assertion as unsupported until it's not. If the god(s) in which atheists don't believe is ill-defined, or undefined, that's the theists' problem.I don't think that's true. When I say "X does not exist" I must define X, otherwise my sentence does not have any meaning.
And if I was saying that, you would be correct. However, read again what I said - my position is "I do not believe X exists"; not "I believe X does not exist". More accurately, "I do not accept your assertion that X does exist". It's basic burden of proof. You make the case; we assess it and come to a conclusion about it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
