(December 31, 2012 at 1:34 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: Mark, saying atheism is a faith-based position is like saying being bald is a hair dye choice.
The sooner you get over that silly mental block, the sooner we can actually get to the core of what the actual discussion is: why you believe in a sentient universe creator/designer being/force that you've labelled as "god".
In reality I don't have a mental block, I can accept that my position is faith based but for some reason my acceptance of this seems to be taken is by default by a lot of athiest I have discussion with to mean anything else I have to say is worthless. I am just trying to level the playing field a little by asking athiest to accept that to Theists, an athiests position at its core has to be faith based (even if they word play faith by saying non faith or belief as non belief). So I believe its not Theists that have a block about the word faith.
and as why as I believe in God, well long before I heard of the First Cause arguement I had thought my way to it as a teenager and realised that at the end of that process I had a decision to make about God or Not God and my decision based on my inner self call it intuition or soul decided God.
