Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: January 18, 2025, 3:28 am

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Never call other humans disbelievers!
#36
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers!
(October 29, 2018 at 7:27 pm)Belaqua Wrote:
(October 29, 2018 at 6:47 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: often, people are heedless and don't know better.

All I'm saying is I withdraw judgment.

I think you're making two good points. I hope that lots of believers agree with you, as it would make for more tolerant relations.

1) You seem to be saying that simple lack of belief isn't the definition of this usage of "Disbeliever." For the term you're using, a Disbeliever is someone who has been offered good proof and chooses to reject it.

This reminds me of the endless Internet debates among atheists about who is really an atheist. Some people want to claim that babies are atheists because they lack belief. Others say this is silly, because it would also include rocks and lizards as atheists. Better to say that an atheist (at least of the type who posts on web sites) is someone who has heard religious claims and rejected them according to reasons. 

2) If I'm reading you right, you're offering a pretty demanding standard for what constitutes proof -- a standard that most people will never receive. If it takes a demonstrable miracle to persuade someone justly, then believers can have sympathy with non-believers because solid miracles are pretty rare these days. 

But this makes sense to me, because in scripture there are a lot of figures, presented as admirable people, who demand miraculous demonstration before believing. Moses, Job, the major Prophets, Jesus' disciples, etc. etc. All demanded a lot more in the way of proof than atheists hear today. 

I am not saying that I believe miracles are accurately recorded in scripture, or that they are possible today. But I think the criteria you've given here, if your fellow believers will pay attention, is sympathetic to non-believers like me, and I appreciate that.

You kindle some hope in me.  It really felt up to that point with the members here it was you're damned if you and you're damned if you don't... sort of thing.
Reply



Messages In This Thread
Never call other humans disbelievers! - by MysticKnight - October 29, 2018 at 2:11 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Minimalist - October 29, 2018 at 2:54 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by downbeatplumb - October 29, 2018 at 2:56 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by MysticKnight - October 29, 2018 at 2:56 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Minimalist - October 29, 2018 at 2:59 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by MysticKnight - October 29, 2018 at 3:01 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by LadyForCamus - October 29, 2018 at 10:12 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by MysticKnight - October 29, 2018 at 2:59 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Silver - October 29, 2018 at 3:01 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Deesse23 - October 29, 2018 at 3:18 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Minimalist - October 29, 2018 at 3:02 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by MysticKnight - October 29, 2018 at 3:03 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Minimalist - October 29, 2018 at 4:59 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Joods - October 29, 2018 at 7:06 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by SaStrike - October 29, 2018 at 3:08 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by downbeatplumb - October 29, 2018 at 3:13 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by MysticKnight - October 29, 2018 at 3:18 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by SaStrike - October 29, 2018 at 3:21 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Losty - October 29, 2018 at 10:33 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Pat Mustard - October 29, 2018 at 5:11 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by MysticKnight - October 29, 2018 at 5:29 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by robvalue - October 29, 2018 at 5:30 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by MysticKnight - October 29, 2018 at 5:42 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by no one - October 29, 2018 at 6:04 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Grandizer - October 29, 2018 at 6:27 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by MysticKnight - October 29, 2018 at 6:29 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Grandizer - October 29, 2018 at 6:35 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by MysticKnight - October 29, 2018 at 6:37 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Grandizer - October 29, 2018 at 6:40 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by MysticKnight - October 29, 2018 at 6:47 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Grandizer - October 29, 2018 at 7:01 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Belacqua - October 29, 2018 at 7:27 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by MysticKnight - October 29, 2018 at 7:34 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Grandizer - October 29, 2018 at 7:42 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by WinterHold - October 29, 2018 at 7:28 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by Gwaithmir - October 29, 2018 at 7:37 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by brewer - October 29, 2018 at 8:49 pm
RE: Never call other humans disbelievers! - by robvalue - October 29, 2018 at 10:40 pm

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  [Quranic reflection]: hell is a black hole-part V, objects never leave hell. WinterHold 40 4974 January 5, 2023 at 11:57 am
Last Post: HappySkeptic
  Flat Earth and other scientific errors in the Quran Fake Messiah 4 1269 January 19, 2020 at 12:28 pm
Last Post: FlatAssembler
  Believers are meant to suffer while disbelievers are enjoying themselves Kimmy 3 608 August 23, 2018 at 10:27 am
Last Post: Fireball
  Did humanity ignore this as it was never mentioned? WinterHold 41 10407 July 21, 2017 at 7:48 pm
Last Post: Vast Vision
  Islam; my faith; and other faiths WinterHold 77 14303 April 30, 2017 at 4:12 pm
Last Post: WinterHold
  Vaccinations are Haram apparently, and Muhammadans never get AIDS... ReptilianPeon 1 994 December 27, 2016 at 5:03 pm
Last Post: Minimalist
  The simulation, some call life. WinterHold 27 4951 August 2, 2016 at 1:46 am
Last Post: ReptilianPeon
  Why is Allah holding Iblis to a different standard than the other Jinn? ReptilianPeon 32 9228 July 4, 2016 at 4:10 am
Last Post: ReptilianPeon
  Somebody born in space (e.g. on Mars) csn never conduct Hajj or Umrah ReptilianPeon 24 5143 April 4, 2016 at 10:06 am
Last Post: AFTT47
  OP ED RANT! Never accuse me of this. Brian37 62 14448 February 21, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Last Post: Brian37



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)