(October 11, 2011 at 12:07 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: The theist will defend the rationalism of their concept, as it is rationally realised. The atheist cannot defend any concept because his concept isn't rationalised: it's formed from a lack of understanding of something.
That is a terrible, see-through and empty handed argument.
It is the equivalent of saying that theism is rational because the theist is intelligent enough to see the immaterial, invisible, magical omni-beautiful emperors new clothes. The atheist can't see them and therefore their position isn't rational.
Come on lets be serious for a moment. The atheist just points out that theism is vacuous. It is the defintion of rational to base your beleifs on the objective status of reality and our ability to comprehend it through our own senses, but irrational to throw that aside in favour of mysticism and magic.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
