RE: Q: do you, Christian, claim that God exists, rather than you believe that he exists?
February 26, 2014 at 6:46 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2014 at 6:55 pm by Whateverist.)
(February 26, 2014 at 1:15 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: I'm not ruling on the validity of your knowledge at all. I'm saying that my knowledge is just as valid as yours. We're constantly berated on here that our knowledge is invalid. I wouldn't accuse you of that, but you must appreciate, and I think you do by this role reversal, that we must complain at the injustice of that accusation made towards us. We justify it and offer reason for scrutiny. Sadly the majority still deny us the right to state our position without deriding it.
Frankly that's what I suspected. But when you copy the sorts of response you deplore in order to make a point it does get a little confusing sometimes. I can appreciate why you feel the impulse to do so. I get that by nature you are not really so pushy. Sorry if I was a dick about your playing the dick to make a point. (WTF did I just say?)
(February 26, 2014 at 1:42 pm)truthBtold Wrote: Serious question? If ur a Christian why come to this forum?
Well you know, it isn't the AthiestsOnlyForums.org. If it were, it would be ever so much more dull. Remember, Christians don't actually have cooties, well, maybe the fundamentalists do.
(February 26, 2014 at 6:23 pm)discipulus Wrote: The reasoning is that the existence of evil and suffering in the world are incompatible with the existence of God. Since evil and suffering exist, it follows that God does not.
This is what I consider to be the most powerful positive argument a non-theist can use against the existence of God.
Are you familiar with this argument?
Really? I would have thought not already feeling that He must exist in combination with not being able to see any indication that He does, would be the best reason not to believe.
