(June 29, 2018 at 10:05 am)SteveII Wrote:(June 29, 2018 at 9:28 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Could you quote an atheist on this forum making such a statement. I'll wait. And I'll dissect their comment like I would anyone else's if it was as incoherent as you describe.
ALL of you say 'atheism' makes no claims. But that is not were MOST of you stop--"you are wrong" is in every other post on this site. Look the meme in the OP. 'Rejecting' literally means asserting a positive claim of inadequacy. So while technically the definition of atheism may shield a person from shouldering any burden of proof, in actuality, once you say someone is wrong (rejecting), there is a requirement to justify the claim.
I've even had people argue, that only claims of what are true have the burden of proof. That they can claim that something is false (rejecting) and have no burden. However this is bad logic, because even when you are claiming something is false, you are still making an objective truth claim.
It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. - Alexander Vilenkin
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther