RE: Thanks for creating a forum with real debate!
March 13, 2013 at 1:21 am
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2013 at 1:21 am by Cyberman.)
(March 13, 2013 at 12:36 am)jstrodel Wrote:(March 12, 2013 at 11:33 pm)Stimbo Wrote: All this effort to try to redefine the word 'atheist' into something more convenient, and we just keep kicking the straw away before they can build their man. It's a shame really.
Not redefine, I want to position a atheism in a world in which rejection of theism is subject to the same standard of justification as acceptance of theism.
Yet you've been corrected numerous times now on the definition of atheism, by actaul atheists. But hey, it's your strawman. Knock yourself out.
(March 13, 2013 at 12:36 am)jstrodel Wrote: What this amounts to is demanding that atheist rejection of theism proceed along the same lines of rationality, impartial analysis of known facts.
Then present these facts, so they can be assessed. Just don't go whining that we don't accept them if and/or when we decide they're not convincing, or not what they're made out to be.
(March 13, 2013 at 12:36 am)jstrodel Wrote: An atheist cannot be a fidist unless an atheist can be a liar.
Of course an atheist can be a liar; what a strange thing to say. However, in the context of atheism, what would such a lie look like? We actually do believe in gods?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
