(October 14, 2017 at 11:46 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(October 14, 2017 at 8:00 pm)Hammy Wrote: Huh. Isn't that what atheists do when they say they don't believe in a God?
Oh let me guess... you're conflating belief with knowledge and pretending an atheist has to pretend to know there isn't a God merely because they don't believe in one. You sure love your pretending.
Not exactly. I'm saying that least when I was an atheist, I wasn't some pussified version. I could at least say that the proposition "God exists" was not true. To profess that "God exists" is not true is a knowledge statement about the proposition. So what say you? Is the proposition "God exists" true or not true, because those are the only options.
Well, did the pussification come with the god-belief?
The term "god" would have to be defined.
The existance of "god" would have to be proven with objective, verifiable evidence in order to accept the claim "God exists"
It has none, so it is a false claim.
Therefore, "god exists" is not a true claim.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
