Yes, welcome aboard. Mind if I pry?
We all come here for various reasons so I'd like to know yours. I think my original motivation was to argue for atheism as the absence of any operative belief in gods but I also like to argue against hard atheism. I think it is just as fraught with epistemic difficulty to argue from "I don't happen to believe that .." to "everyone should believe, as I myself do, that ..".
For me it isn't a question of probabilities. I find absolutely no evidence and have heard no argument which make the existence of the Christian god the least bit likely to my way of thinking. But do I have an argument or any evidence to make the negative case against the existence of God? No, and that makes me a level 6 atheist. There are level 7 atheists here on this forum who think there is reason to know gods do not exist. But they would generally prefer to argue that the honus is on those who wish to argue for the existence of gods.
So are you a level 1 Christian theist who thinks there are good arguments and ample evidence which should convince all right thinking people to believe in your god? Or are you a level 2 Christian theist who finds he does have an active belief in God, but recognizes that there isn't anything to be said to convince a right thinking person to join you in your belief?
We all come here for various reasons so I'd like to know yours. I think my original motivation was to argue for atheism as the absence of any operative belief in gods but I also like to argue against hard atheism. I think it is just as fraught with epistemic difficulty to argue from "I don't happen to believe that .." to "everyone should believe, as I myself do, that ..".
For me it isn't a question of probabilities. I find absolutely no evidence and have heard no argument which make the existence of the Christian god the least bit likely to my way of thinking. But do I have an argument or any evidence to make the negative case against the existence of God? No, and that makes me a level 6 atheist. There are level 7 atheists here on this forum who think there is reason to know gods do not exist. But they would generally prefer to argue that the honus is on those who wish to argue for the existence of gods.
So are you a level 1 Christian theist who thinks there are good arguments and ample evidence which should convince all right thinking people to believe in your god? Or are you a level 2 Christian theist who finds he does have an active belief in God, but recognizes that there isn't anything to be said to convince a right thinking person to join you in your belief?
