(February 16, 2012 at 12:00 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Good old argument from personal experience. Conversational blackmail. You are forced to call them idiots or liars, and they know it. Doesn't meet my standards for evidence.
This makes me think of the scene from a science fiction movie .. maybe the Martian Chronicles .. where the earthling reaches out his hand and passes it through the martian. "You're not really there" says the earthling. Then the martian does the same thing and makes the same statement. Seems like my perfect theist and you would each feel bullied or blackmailed but ultimately unconvinced by the other. Fortunately for you I've never met my ideal theist so the issue is probably moot.
