RE: A really hard question on Satan and deception.
October 28, 2011 at 10:06 am
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2011 at 10:09 am by Captain Scarlet.)
(October 28, 2011 at 9:21 am)lucent Wrote: You've claimed many times my God doesn't exist. You're not one of those atheists who pretend they don't have a belief in God, you actually come out and say He doesn't exist. So, you have an equal burden of proof which you have never met.Oh no that's just wrong. I too am a strong atheist. I would happily assert god/s does/do not exist. In making that claim I would happily accept that I attract a burden of proof. But it's asymmetric, theism has the higher burden of proof here. Atheism is presumed as is the case for all other supernatural claims.
Arguments for strong atheism are wide ranging and it is too large a topic for one thread. Let me give you one from non-cognitivism
A being has a primary attribute, from which the secondary and relational attributes depend (such as a humans have an identified primary attribute of being homo sapiens and a number of associated secondary attributes eg bi-lateral symmetry)
The concept of a god is a being with identified secondary attributes (such as his omni qualities)
The concept of god has no identified primary attribute (the concept is mysterious)
As secondary attributes depend on a primary attribute, to describe a being with knowledge only of it's secondary attributes is meaningless
Therefore the concept of god is meaningless
Therefore Theism is meaningless
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
