(September 27, 2013 at 12:09 am)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: If a theist says I have no idea if god exists, it's a matter of faith. I don't see a problem with that. They are welcome to give up pleasures just to invest in an imaginary afterlife that they believe in.
But if they say, this is the truth and I know it, then yes, they have the burden of proof. How many theists have you met that has admitted to you that they do not know if god exists and that there's a possibility he doesn't? I've only met one like that, and surprisingly it was a muslim.
Well I haven't met him, but Søren Kierkegaard made such a claim, that such was entirely a matter of faith. He did after all coin the 'leap to faith' (improperly rendered nowadays as the 'leap of faith'). Granted, most theists today probably wouldn't agree with that.
And as I say, some theists have some tolerance (maybe not a lot) with the prospect of doubt. Hence the so-called "dark nights of the soul".
