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If you learned that the god of [insert religion] is real, would all bets be off?

Poll: If a god were real, could this god create a married bachelor?
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If you learned that the god of [insert religion] is real, would all bets be off?
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RE: If you learned that the god of [insert religion] is real, would all bets be off?
January 8, 2024 at 12:36 am
(January 8, 2024 at 12:15 am)Astreja Wrote:
(January 7, 2024 at 11:52 pm)Sicnoo0 Wrote: Can the belief that married bachelors cannot exist be considered a dogmatic belief?

It's a definition, not a belief per se.  A married bachelor is a contradiction in terms, because by definition bachelors are not married.

If a god were to create a married bachelor it would simply create a case in which the meaning of the word 'bachelor' had been altered to 'a man who can be either married or unmarried.'

So you'd agree that - outside of sneakily redefining terms - there would be no way for anyone - even a "god" - to create a married bachelor?

The reason I'm interested in this is that it seems some of my fellow atheists are not willing to concede that - if a god hypothetically proved his/her/its existence to them - any god which exists in the real world has to be incapable of performing logically impossible feats, such as creating a married bachelor.

I'll even quote an atheist who has refused to concede to this: "If I found out that god is actually real then I wouldn’t assume anything about its capabilities or limitations"

Where I differ from this atheist is that I do believe it would be reasonable to assume a real-life god has the limitation of being unable to perform logically impossible feats, such as creating a married bachelor
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RE: If you learned that the god of [insert religion] is real, would all bets be off? - by Sicnoo0 - January 8, 2024 at 12:36 am

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