(December 1, 2017 at 9:08 pm)PhilosophicalZebra Wrote: - and finally: non-believers should be ridiculed because their views are *obviously* wrong and yours are completely, unquestionably correct - right?
No, because you're making the mistake - or ploy - of taking criticism of one's beliefs and making it personal. If you don't want your views ridiculed, don't present me with ridiculous views.
Also: pot/kettle much? There aren't many theists who don't insist that theirs are the only unquestionably correct views.
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.'