(May 8, 2014 at 3:33 am)Kitanetos Wrote: Something I have noticed with the regular theists who post here is that their main concern of evidence for god's existence is that he is necessary.
That is not evidence, because god is absolutely not necessary.
If god was a veritable necessity, people would be unable to live normal lives without god.
Considering that atheists are quite capable of living perfectly normal lives without god, the necessity of god is negated.
Necessity, after all, is the oxygen we breath. Without it, we would die. We are perfectly capable of not dying without god.
God is merely the crutch to which theists cling because they have deluded (yes, there is that apt word again) themselves into thinking life is meaningless without the ruling delusion.
Not that I disagree with the position that "god is necessary" is bullshit, but I think I think you are tying yourself into a knot here by your analogy trying to show why god is not necessatry.
Something may be true, and may necessarily be true, without it being necessary for you to perceive a need for it.
For example. Plate tectonics is true. It is necesssarily true in both the sense that there is no other competitve alternatives to explaining the evidence from geology, fauna, and flora on earth, and in that plate tectonics is necessary for earth to remain habitable to higher animal life such as yourself. Yet I bet most people don't perceive a need for it.
