RE: Why are you an Atheist?
December 19, 2019 at 12:03 pm
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2019 at 12:15 pm by maxolla.)
(December 19, 2019 at 11:56 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(December 19, 2019 at 11:46 am)maxolla Wrote: Stories and accounts of it exist.Then your God would answer prayers to restore an amputated limb?
I think anything is possible. We usually think of prayer as something of a request and then some base belief on the “answer” or lack of one. Make me rich make me famous make me well make me strong make me etc etc etc. Solve all of my immediate problems and do it right now or else.
Not my experience of what prayer is or how it effects the natural or spiritual realm.
(December 19, 2019 at 11:58 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: maxolla, I find the claims of the existence of your God unconvincing, yet you seem to imagine that it's typical for atheists to have to go to special lengths not to believe. I'm sure you used to believe in something you no longer accept as true, didn't you just find it less plausible over time?
Examples of Israeli archaeologists who have concluded that the Exodus is mythical include Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman.
I’m sure it’s different for all atheists and Christians and there is no rule of thumb for any believer or disbeliever but we as humans tend towards compiling evidence for things we like to believe more than compiling evidence for things we abhor.
