(June 1, 2024 at 4:02 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Have you simply asked your Christian friend to provide some testable, unfalsifiable evidence of his god? It's his claim so he needs to defend it.
That doesn’t seem to be the best approach with them - the dialogue is largely via text which makes these things painful. For me the approach I am taking is to knock down his misrepresentations of atheism as he makes them. Longer arguments are fine, but we only meet once in a while.
This thread isn’t so much about how I approach them, more about how I can formulate and develop my own views now I actually want to. They were just the catalyst