RE: Ybe an atheist
May 27, 2018 at 4:21 am
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2018 at 4:30 am by Losty.)
(May 27, 2018 at 12:18 am)Ybe Wrote:No, you clearly do not.(May 26, 2018 at 8:48 pm)Astreja Wrote: My phrasing was ambiguous, and I accept your retraction. This is how I intended it to be read:OK IC I completely took it the opposite way. Sorry.
"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: That;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.
(May 27, 2018 at 12:18 am)Ybe Wrote: But do you have any reason to be an atheist that makes logical sense.Lots of people here gave you those reasons. You faithfully promised me that you would respond to me personally. You did not. I leave it to your imagination what corner you have painted yourself into.
(May 27, 2018 at 12:18 am)Ybe Wrote: For example I am an atheist, because the sun evidences to meThat is flat out bizarre. Atheists and theists of every colour acknowledge that the sun shines. We can measure it regardless of what position one might take.
that atheism is the best position to take
supported by the because the sun shines in the morning on everyone.
Can we measure your particular god? Nope. Because you have yet to identify whatever bovine deity you happen to believe.
And that fact simply exposes your own lack of faith. You had to pretend to a sufficiently vague deity to hide your doubt.
So let's just wheel out the questions...
What god do you believe in?
Why are you dissembling?
Why have you no confidence in your deity of choice?
Now, I know you will decline to answer such question aforehand, But I post such questions simply to expose the vapid lack of thought you exhibit.
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