RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
August 17, 2019 at 1:20 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2019 at 1:34 pm by Abaddon_ire.)
(August 17, 2019 at 11:58 am)Lek Wrote:(August 17, 2019 at 1:37 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: So you just decided to believe in god for bugger all reason. This seems reasonable to you?
No. I didn't just decide to believe in God. I do believe in God and can't disbelieve in God.
So your last post was a lie? When you stated that "you came to the decision to believe in god" you were being dishonest? Is that it? Do you want me to quote your own words at you?
(August 17, 2019 at 12:43 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(August 17, 2019 at 12:24 pm)Lek Wrote: No. I came to the decision that I was unable to discontinue that belief in God that I had already possessed. I don't remember ever making a decision to believe in God. Like you guys like to say, I was indoctrinated to believe just as many of you were. But some have walked away and some have continued to believe.
Oh, I see. You didn't decide to believe so much as you decided that your belief was justified. That's fair. I was just puzzled by your word choice.
Boru
That is not what he said either. Apparently, to Lek, believing in god is a mere lifestyle choice. He was an atheist (right) but couldn't sustain that "belief" (yes, he thinks atheism is a belief) so he fell back to mother church because actually thinking is just too much effort. And he never left mother church in the first place. Claiming to be atheist was merely teen rebellion for a period of time, to look cool and rebellious, not a considered evaluation of the facts at hand.
At this point, all he can offer is decisions he made. To be an atheist, to not be an atheist, to be a custard pie for all I care. What is conspicuously missing is any form of rationale for any of it and when asked, Lek hasn't got one, anything at all. Nothing. Tumbleweeds.