(February 28, 2019 at 10:45 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote:(February 28, 2019 at 6:17 pm)Belaqua Wrote: 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.
God(s): mystical beings created by people to help explain things they didn't understand and developed into beings used to incite fear and control the masses.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
