(December 16, 2019 at 4:13 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(December 16, 2019 at 9:00 am)Klorophyll Wrote: I meant that nonreligious people tend to judge entire religions by very superficial criteria.
You do understand that atheists disbelief in the existence of ALL gods, even deist or pantheist gods, not just those gods associated with specific religions, right?
The only criteria I have to use, is has a god been demonstrated to exist. Until that occurs, I don't care what individual religions claim.
It doesn't require the assessment of specific religions to understand that NO god has ever been demonstrated to exist. In fact, religious leaders, holy texts, believers claims, can all be dismissed, until a god is demonstrated to exist. Only after a god is demonstrated to exist, can we then begin to try to discern if it a god of a specific religion, and described in any religious book.
What would be a proper demonstration of existence? What would a God have to do to prove to you that it existed?
