(April 17, 2014 at 1:42 am)max-greece Wrote:(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. 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. It's a dishonest bait-and-switch tactic to avoid the burden of proof.
That might have been true if we didn't believe in your god - but we don't merely not believe in your god - we don't believe in any of them.
We don't even have an order of Gods in terms of those we don't believe in most.
Theists get confused when they talk to atheists as the conversations are usually focused on their particular god.
Good point. "God or no god" loses sight of "which god"?
For that matter it overlooks "what's a god"? I mean, sure I guess I know what one may be in the sense that I know what a kraken, minataur or mermaid is supposed to be. But folklore isn't my long suit and it hardly seems fair or relevant to appeal to my knowledge of folklore when discussing what we think is real.
