(December 17, 2019 at 1:09 pm)maxolla Wrote:(December 16, 2019 at 4:13 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: 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?
According to the bible people could barely leave their homes without encountering a sign or messenger from god.
Now the best he can do seems to speak through multiple contradictory individuals or images on toast.
Has he grown bored, run out of ideas, or just doesn’t exist?
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
