RE: Dear Atheists: what would convince you God/Christ is Real?
January 21, 2024 at 8:29 pm
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2024 at 8:29 pm by Simon Moon.)
(January 19, 2024 at 8:57 pm)Ahriman Wrote:(January 18, 2024 at 2:19 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Yeah, right, wanting to have good standards of evidence, and valid and sound logic to support one's beliefs is "asking too much".
So, lets say you are presented with a new supernatural claim. By what method do you use in order to determine if you should believe it or not?
What method did you use to determine which gods you should believe exist, and which don't exist?
I think they could all exist. I'm not picky.
There is big difference between thinking some supernatural thing could exist, and actually accepting the claim that it does indeed exist, as being true.
So, you really didn’t answer my question.
Let me change it a bit based on your last response.
What method did you use in order to conclude a supernatural thing could exist. Possibility has to be demonstrated, not asserted.
It is obvious, you really don't care if your beliefs are true or not.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
