RE: Atheists... why do you believe that God doesn't exist?
April 16, 2014 at 10:18 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2014 at 10:19 pm by Cyberman.)
(April 16, 2014 at 9:25 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The whole "atheism is simply a lack of belief" card turns out to be a lie the minute atheists start to defend their lack of belief by giving reasons for it.
A- = without; lacking
theism = belief in god/s
Why is this so hard?
(April 16, 2014 at 9:25 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Once you start making claims for or against an idea then you have stopped being agnostic (that strangely forgotten word) and have started to advocate a position.
Gnosticism/agnosticism refer to what one knows or claims to know. Theism/atheism relates to one's beliefs concerning god/s. The two terms are not mutually exclusive and, in point of fact, often used complementarily.
(April 16, 2014 at 9:25 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: It's a dishonest bait-and-switch tactic to avoid the burden of proof.
Know why atheists - at least according to the 'standard position', which all atheists share - have no burden of proof? Because they're not trying to prove anything.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
