Atheists... why do you believe that God doesn't exist?
April 17, 2014 at 9:02 pm
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2014 at 9:27 pm by Rampant.A.I..)
Christian theists like Frodo aren't just talking about "a God" or any of the thousands Gods in mythology and other religions, but they assume all discussions will be about their specific version of the Christian God, with the specific attributes their particular sect has assigned to that version of their God.
This allows for a number of tricks like:
Atheist: "if God is omnibenevolent, why do terrible things happen to good or innocent people?"
Theist: "I've solved the traditional problem of good and evil! God isn't omnibenevolent."
Atheist: "But the Christian God is. That's the historical definition."
Theist: "Nope, my God's not omnibenevolent, and I'm Christian, so you can clearly see the Christian God is not omnibenevolent."
They can claim any attributes, change any rules they want without evidence, because they don't have to define God in any way, however you as the atheist are supposed to provide enough evidence to disprove something they never even had to define.
There's incredible dishonesty in simply establishing the plausibility if a supernatural being, so you can sneak your particular religious deity in through the back door.
Anyone who thinks that's reasonable has been so thoroughly indoctrinated into their belief system, they either can't actually tell the presuppositions they make are there, or are simply lying to get you to presuppose "their god" as devined by access to "Truth no non-believer can perceive."
This allows for a number of tricks like:
Atheist: "if God is omnibenevolent, why do terrible things happen to good or innocent people?"
Theist: "I've solved the traditional problem of good and evil! God isn't omnibenevolent."
Atheist: "But the Christian God is. That's the historical definition."
Theist: "Nope, my God's not omnibenevolent, and I'm Christian, so you can clearly see the Christian God is not omnibenevolent."
They can claim any attributes, change any rules they want without evidence, because they don't have to define God in any way, however you as the atheist are supposed to provide enough evidence to disprove something they never even had to define.
There's incredible dishonesty in simply establishing the plausibility if a supernatural being, so you can sneak your particular religious deity in through the back door.
Anyone who thinks that's reasonable has been so thoroughly indoctrinated into their belief system, they either can't actually tell the presuppositions they make are there, or are simply lying to get you to presuppose "their god" as devined by access to "Truth no non-believer can perceive."
