RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
August 15, 2019 at 11:45 am
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2019 at 11:48 am by Simon Moon.)
(August 14, 2019 at 7:18 pm)Lek Wrote:(August 14, 2019 at 6:10 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: And once again, you are guilty of special pleading.
There are millions of people all over the middle east that claim to have: seen Jinn, witnesses Jinn possess people, physically attack people, shape shift, responsible for mental illness, and more. And you probably do not believe their claims, yet you believe almost the exact same category of claims from other people, just because you know them.
Once again, you have demonstrated how low your bar is for what you accept as convincing evidence. You are a credulous fool. You are guilty of just about every fallacy there is, in order to continue to believe your extremely unsupported beliefs.
I'm open to Jinn.
As am I. I am also open to the the existence of ghosts, gods, bigfoot, etc.
All I require to be convinced of any of the above types of claims, is demonstrable, falsifiable evidence, and valid and sound logic to support them.
Instead, all we ever see from theists, is, quotes and appeals from ancient texts, flawed and fallacious philosophical arguments, anecdotal evidence, and in this case, hearsay from your relatives that you believe just because you trust them.
As if people one trusts are unable to be mistaken about an experience...
Quote: By the way, you're arrogant and rude.
I might have been in this case.
But I've been here for years, and all we've ever heard from you, is flawed argument after flawed argument, and bad evidence. I am not so sure it is being rude or arrogant to point out when someone is making flawed arguments. Especially when almost everyone here has pointed it out.
If I make a flawed argument and provide bad evidence for one of my beliefs, I love when someone points it out to me. One of my motivations in life is, to hold as many true beliefs as possible, and eliminate as many false beliefs as possible. I care if my beliefs are true or not.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.