RE: Is atheism self-contradictory ?
June 25, 2017 at 11:41 am
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2017 at 11:42 am by paulpablo.)
In reply to the part where you said I know if my doors and windows are damaged that there's a burgler in my house.
That's wrong, it could be vandals who have no intention of burglary. It could be that someone in my family got really anger and smashed the place up. It could have been a series of accidents.
If the windows and doors were smashed one of my guesses will be that it might be burglars.
But if someone shows me a book written in Arabic and tells me it's from their prophet as a message to all mankind, obviously the prophet was also coincidentally Arabic. Then I'm going to be very skeptical and not believe that person.
Not one of my guesses would include, this might be god's work.
Just as I'm skeptical about all the other millions of claims to prophethood and godhood.
Just as I'm skeptical about all the other followers who say "but my God/book/prophet is special because....."
That's wrong, it could be vandals who have no intention of burglary. It could be that someone in my family got really anger and smashed the place up. It could have been a series of accidents.
If the windows and doors were smashed one of my guesses will be that it might be burglars.
But if someone shows me a book written in Arabic and tells me it's from their prophet as a message to all mankind, obviously the prophet was also coincidentally Arabic. Then I'm going to be very skeptical and not believe that person.
Not one of my guesses would include, this might be god's work.
Just as I'm skeptical about all the other millions of claims to prophethood and godhood.
Just as I'm skeptical about all the other followers who say "but my God/book/prophet is special because....."
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
