RE: Thoughts on Atheism (and a plea to the religious)
July 8, 2012 at 8:34 am
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2012 at 8:39 am by Norfolk And Chance.)
(July 8, 2012 at 8:29 am)CliveStaples Wrote: You're atheists, for fuck's sake. This is precisely the difference between "I don't think there's evidence for God" and "I believe God doesn't exist."
It is not a case of their being a difference between your two statements, it is a case of one leads to the other.
"There is no evidence for god" leads an atheist to a point where he concludes "based on that, I do not believe god exists"
This is simple, straightforward, fucking obvious to an atheist, and surely can't be hard to grasp.
It is also not irrational and not illogical.
(July 8, 2012 at 8:29 am)CliveStaples Wrote: That's the ad hominem fallacy. If you can't justify your beliefs, fine. Don't get pissy just because I point out that they're unjustified.
I wasn't justifying my lack of beliefs or trying to, I was calling you a prick, because you were being one.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
