God is the great spirit friend

[jstrodel]

I try and assess whether the things are true and what relationship that has to things that I already believe, like everyone else.

The question of whether they are true is separate from my acceptance of their truth value, but at another level they are related.

"Do you believe it is possible to listen to someone and just hear what they have to say, without passing any judgement or making any theory about their mental state or creating some new "hypothesis" to justify your theist position?"

That is what I said. "The question of whether they are true is separate from my acceptance of their truth value". You brain seems to lack the capacity to make nuanced distinctions. Obviously knowledge presupposes some sort of dialectical relationship between past experience and sense experience, but the nature of this is important, how it takes place.

I am sorry that you were not able to recognize the tension in me as I wrote what I did, that represents the tension that exists as learning itself is contradictory and presupposes learning for it to function properly or for discernment and verification to be possible, itself also requiring verification.

Do you think it is possible there are people in the world who have thought about things longer than you have, who are not atheists?

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You slander religious people in your cheap culture war in order to discredit them because you can't disprove what they say.

Disprove what they say?!?!
We don't spend time trying to disprove magical fairies on the moon either. What halfwit would spend a moment's time trying to disprove something that doesn't exist??

It is not like all the atheist authors that you read aren't teaching at formerly Christian universities or the entire society that you live in was not based on Christian values.

I can see that you are an honest, clear minded person when you say that Christianity has the same evidential standards as believing there are fairies on the moon. That proves to me that you aren't just a propangadist, that you have a real serious commitment to learning, and that you are fully informed of the role that Christianity has played in your own appreciation of atheism (which is significant).

Any reasonable person can see that putting Christianity on the same evidential plane as fairies on the moon is nothing other than pure atheist honesty.

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You slander religious people in your cheap culture war in order to discredit them because you can't disprove what they say.

You cannot even prove what you say.

You fail to distinguish between "proving" something and "proving it to you over the internet".