RE: Ybe an atheist
May 27, 2018 at 12:18 am
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2018 at 12:28 am by Ybe.)
(May 26, 2018 at 8:48 pm)Astreja Wrote:OK IC I completely took it the opposite way. Sorry.(May 26, 2018 at 10:22 am)Ybe Wrote: Sorry if you believe that it is a lie. I thought that was your claim in #155
If it is not your claim: "I don't have a rational excuse for my belief, and you don't either!" then consider it retracted.
I don't see away to edit the post you considered a lie any more , but I would agree for moderators to tag #179 a retraction.
My phrasing was ambiguous, and I accept your retraction. This is how I intended it to be read:
"I (generic religious person) don't have a rational excuse for my belief, and you (generic atheist) don't either!"
It's a spin on a very common apologetic trope, "It takes more faith to be an atheist."
(May 27, 2018 at 12:16 am)Khemikal Wrote:(May 26, 2018 at 11:59 pm)Ybe Wrote: Most responses seem to be along the lines of assertions; I'm an A because I'm an AThat;s called a tautology. I am a married man because I am a man..who is married. Similarly, I am an atheist because I do not believe in gods. It would be irrational for me to be theist, as a person who doesn;t believe in gods. So when you ask the silly ass question of whether or not a person has a rational justification to be an atheist...you;ve set the bar so low that a simple tautology suffices.
Do you understand?
I understand a tautology. But do you have any reason to be an atheist that makes logical sense.
For example I am an atheist, because the sun evidences to me
that atheism is the best position to take
supported by the because the sun shines in the morning on everyone.