(July 18, 2013 at 7:14 am)fr0d0 Wrote: If I had blind faith, that would be unreasonable, just like your blind faith in no proof.
My faith, however, is based upon reason, and is not blind. (see the "what is faith" thread for the definition)
Reason is based upon premises, though, and those premises need to be demonstrated to be true in order to be justified, reasonable, and indeed, acceptable to a rational mind. One of the premises of belief in a god, by necessity, is "some god exists," and without a justification, or even a methodology by which that premise can be discerned as truthful, then you cannot rationally hold it.
Let me put it another way: something convinced you that this god proposition was true, something had to, since we as people don't come with preinstalled ideas. You saw something that convinced you of the existence of a god, or heard an argument, or even pieced it together from your own observations, but there was something that made you accept this claim. What was that thing?
You say your position is based upon reason, yet you never seem to explain or identify what's reasonable about it. You just assert, over and over again, that your thinking is reasonable, but how is anyone else to differentiate it from the usual theistic non-arguments if you refuse to let us in on the secret?
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