(August 30, 2018 at 12:03 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 30, 2018 at 11:22 am)Kit Wrote: Because you are wrong and unwilling to accept it. Therefore, you're preferring the delusion over the reality.
How is that different from a believer accusing you of willful ignorance and degeneracy for refusing to believe? Accusing other people of intellectual stubbornness and professing things they don't actually believe sounds to me like an excuse to deny the possibility that Christians could have genuine and innocent reasons for their beliefs.
Think of it this way:
Theist: god is real / unicorn is real
Atheist: god is not real / unicorn is not real
It is not willful ignorance on part of the atheist when there is absolutely no evidence for the existence of that for which the believer is making a positive claim of existence.
It is not a difficult concept to understand, yet theist tend to make it doubly so merely based on an ignorant adherence to faith.
Faith is nothing of which to be proud or to cling. It should be discarded, because it is useless. It corrupts the mind, which becomes more apparent the more we debate.
