(December 18, 2011 at 8:32 pm)amkerman Wrote: Shell B: a "rejection", as you put it, of the idea of god is disbelief in God. There is no other way to describe it. It is impossible for one to acknowledge an idea without holding a belief about it. You may be ambivilant towards belief in God, or feel or sense in some way that God does not exist, but the very fact that you are aware of the idea of God makes God impossible to reject. The only things one can "reject" are beliefs. You may believe the idea is wrong, or ignore or disregard that idea, but the idea exists nonetheless. You were forced to accept the idea by the mere fact that it was introduced to you. You claim that you reject the idea of God, but to do so requires that at one point you were made aware of the possibility of God. The fact that you are aware of the possibility of God necessarily means that you formed some sort of belief about what "God" is. you then rejected that belief. One does not need to "know" anything to form beliefs about things. Indeed, belief and knowledge occupy two entirely separate spheres.
You believing something does not make it a possibility. Use fewer words. It makes epic fails less likely.
