RE: OK, what IS the right classification...
September 28, 2011 at 9:54 am
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2011 at 10:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I say "your belief in god is based on insufficient evidence, which is to say, not based on evidence at all, but faith, and it irritates me greatly that you continue to assert evidence for your god without being able to provide any".
What happened to "there can be no evidence" Frodo?
For the record, we don't start with the conclusion god doesn't exist. So it's not an accurate description of our position. You phrase it this way in a dishonest attempt to equivocate between our very different positions. A much more accurate (and honest) way of phrasing this would be:
Because these stories have been shown to be false, and in the light of an absolute lack of any other evidence whatsoever, this god does not exist.
You, btw, do not HAVE to say "God exists and therefore". You choose to say this, because you do not wish to subject this notion to criticism, even in your own mind. You assume it to be true because you wish for it to be true, and then refuse to allow any criticism of the idea, alternatively claiming "there can be no evidence" or "everything is evidence of" or "as a christians I MUST presuppose". It's fuzzy thinking.
What happened to "there can be no evidence" Frodo?
For the record, we don't start with the conclusion god doesn't exist. So it's not an accurate description of our position. You phrase it this way in a dishonest attempt to equivocate between our very different positions. A much more accurate (and honest) way of phrasing this would be:
Because these stories have been shown to be false, and in the light of an absolute lack of any other evidence whatsoever, this god does not exist.
You, btw, do not HAVE to say "God exists and therefore". You choose to say this, because you do not wish to subject this notion to criticism, even in your own mind. You assume it to be true because you wish for it to be true, and then refuse to allow any criticism of the idea, alternatively claiming "there can be no evidence" or "everything is evidence of" or "as a christians I MUST presuppose". It's fuzzy thinking.
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