(March 4, 2014 at 12:39 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(March 4, 2014 at 11:35 am)JesusLover1 Wrote: Well you could reason that maybe when Santa comes to deliver the presents, he alters your mind to make you forgot he was there and that you were the one that bought the gifts.
The simple answer is that the parents KNOW they're the ones providing the gifts, and if the kids don't find out for themselves, eventually they will let them in on it.
(March 4, 2014 at 11:52 am)JesusLover1 Wrote: So why are you an atheist if you can't prove it?
FINALLY, an important question instead of an assumption. First of all, note the double-standard: Why are you a Christian if you can't prove it? Because that's pretty much the reason we're atheists instead of Christians (or Muslims or Hindus and so forth). No one has proved any God or god exists. Heck, no one has even proven ghosts exist, let alone super-powerful spirits that could be considered gods.
Most atheists are agnostic atheists, also know as 'weak atheists' or 'negative atheists'. We don't make a positive claim that God does not exist, we just don't believe anyone else's claim that God (any God) actually DOES exist. We don't believe in God because the people who DO believe in God have not made what we consider an adequate case to believe them.
I can't prove cold fusion will never work as a power source, but I'm so skeptical that it ever will that it would have to be demonstrated and backed up by peer review of scientists in the relevant fields before I would believe it. I don't believe in God for the same reason I don't believe in Bigfoot or leprechauns. Insufficient evidence.
But the whole point of religion is to have faith, which is believing without evidence. If there was evidence, there'd be no point to faith.
