RE: Q: do you, Christian, claim that God exists, rather than you believe that he exists?
February 24, 2014 at 10:23 pm
(February 24, 2014 at 10:11 pm)discipulus Wrote:(February 24, 2014 at 9:59 pm)rasetsu Wrote: In other words, you don't have any evidence that doesn't require prior belief in order for it to be received as true. If you don't see the problem with that, you are truly lost.
I do not have any evidence that cannot be explained away by someone who is unwilling to accept it.
In other words, the evidence I have is of the sort that it can be explained away if it is presented to a person who does not want to accept it.
I hope you can see how this differs from what you have suggested I have said. I have mentioned nothing about "prior belief" at all.
But you are clearly implying it. The "evidence" you have presented clearly only works with a presupposed belief in god.
You understand that a desire to accept evidence has nothing at all to do with the quality of that evidence, right? If you present evidence that is unconvincing, that is your problem, not ours.
Remember: you are that theist that came to an atheist forum. It is absolutely ridiculous to come in here and claim that we are the ones with the problem if we don't accept what you say. It's just beneath rationality.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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