(February 27, 2010 at 10:21 pm)padraic Wrote: and seem to care that others accept your personal superstitions.
I care in the sense that i would like, that all human kind would accept God's offered forgiveness of sins.
But i do not try to convert anyone. If you do want to convert yourself, or not, is entirely your own business.
(February 27, 2010 at 10:21 pm)padraic Wrote: That means you have the burden of proof..
I cannot, and i do not want to prove anything, to anyone. The christian faith does not rely on proofs, otherwise it would not be faith anymore.
(February 27, 2010 at 10:21 pm)padraic Wrote: I never justify my belief nor argue with apologists because I truly do not care what they believe and most are incapable of critical thought when it comes to religion. Neither do I conflate winning an argument with being right necessarily.
I don't attribut critical thinking to atheists. Actually, the atheistic position is in my opinion the most irrational and senseless position someone can get.
(February 27, 2010 at 10:21 pm)padraic Wrote: there is simply no evidence for the existence of god(s). That is THE issue for me, I am unable to go anywhere until I see such proof.
it seems you change proofs with evidence. there are in fact no proofs for Gods existence. But there is our cosmos. Creation and all that exists. We are intelligent beings, and capable of analying and thinking about all that surrounds us. Based on that, we can come to different conclusions. And one of them is, that there must be a higher being, that created everything. So our cosmos IS evidence for God's existence, for the ones, that believe God is the best explanation for our existence. Others might think the oposit. But then, they must come up with a explanation, why they think a OTHER cause for all that exists is better than God. I am still waiting a atheist to come up with a better explanation. So far, i have not seen one.