RE: Atheists are mentally ill
August 26, 2013 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2013 at 3:12 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(August 24, 2013 at 5:46 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: You can't reject the resurrection quite as easily as say you would reject Mohammed claim that he flew up to heaven on a winged horse or Joesph Smiths translation of golden tablets only he could read through magical stones inside a hat.
Why not? All those things are hearsay, and if we reject two of them because they sound impossible, why not the other?
(August 24, 2013 at 5:46 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: As an atheist/non-believer you have to work a bit harder at explaining what this event was based on and what it was people apparently experienced. You can still do it of course but you need to put some more effort into this one.
Why? It's hearsay. Without corroborating evidence, it's fifity-fifty at best, add in that it describes an event normally held to be impossible, it goes on the 'Mohammed flew to heaven' pile.
(August 24, 2013 at 5:46 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: If you think God is a ridiculous concept with no real chance of existing then you will just have to explain away the resurrection and the empty tomb as some kind of hysteria.
If you think God is a perfectly reasonable concept with every chance of existing, you still don't have to explain away something that hasn't been shown to have happened in the first place.
(August 24, 2013 at 5:46 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: It's a little different if you're convinced that God must exist to begin with, evidence from human experience, philosophy, science and so on.
It's not different, unless there's something about believing in God that necessarily prevents you from not believing the resurrection story. There are about 1.5 billion Muslims who believe in God but think the resurrection story went quite differently.
(August 24, 2013 at 10:09 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: I suppose you think they're all 100% purely made up and fictional without a shred of truth anywhere within and you and 2% of the human race have access to the full pure and exclusive truth, that you alone somehow know. I think my view is a little more moderate/liberal than yours, less dogmatic.
The way you somehow know that Mohammed didn't fly up to the moon? That's how we somehow know Jesus wasn't resurrected. The supernatural claims of the world's religions can't all be true because so many of them contradict each other: but they CAN all be false.
