(March 29, 2013 at 9:30 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(March 29, 2013 at 9:24 pm)Joel Wrote: That's irrelevant to my question. I simply asked what your basis is for thinking "I don't believe you." is a belief. Justification doesn't matter.
"I don't believe you." is not the same as "I believe you are wrong."
If someone doesn't believe in morality, people are allowed to wonder, "Why don't you believe" because they believe it's common human intuition to know morality is true.
The same is true for non-intuitive things, but "common knowledge" like earth being round or the great wall of China existing.
To theists it feels like it's common knowledge often, like praise, morality, etc, is common knowledge...so they wonder why Atheists don't believe while people tend to believe.
It's a matter of perspective, and I don't think it can be simplified to simply "I don't need to provide evidence but you do, because I'm not making any claims".
I didn't simplify it to that... Anywhere. I agree with you, even.
