(February 28, 2019 at 6:17 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(February 28, 2019 at 5:58 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: You don't get to tell other people how they are thinking.
I agree that in some cases, a person's beliefs concerning god or the lack thereof may NOT be reasoned conclusions based on conscious premises.
A person might believe that there is no reason to believe in a god based on a whim, or a prejudice, or force of habit. We might call such things reasons, but bad ones.
The point I am trying to make is that calling such a condition a lack does not mean that the atheist has nothing to defend.
Until a coherent definition of a a "god" is offered, there is nothing to defend.
Atheists are not in any defensive position simply because theists claim they believe in some crazy shit.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
