(November 18, 2017 at 10:34 pm)Haipule Wrote: Psalm 14:1/53:1 A fool says in his heart, "there is no God".
Q) So, you're an atheist?
A) yes.
Q) That means that beyond your vast resources of ideas: there is no God?
A) There is no god.
That means that you are omniscient and that you ARE God!
Then bowing to my knees I yell out, "Command me my Lord!"
Atheism is nothing more than NOT being convinced that a god or gods exist. It is not necessarily the claim that no gods exist.
So, your entire little dialog is nothing but a straw man.
I don't have to be omniscient in order to say that, as of now, I haven't been presented with sufficient demonstrable evidence and reasoned argument to support the claim made by theists, that a god exists.
I guess you also must be omniscient in order to disbelieve in Shiva, Ahura Mazda, Ba'al, and all the other 1000's of gods, right?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
