(June 19, 2014 at 10:49 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(June 19, 2014 at 10:20 am)fr0d0 Wrote: You couldn't look around the corner first. You just had to believe it was there and take it. You assumed in your favour. Your analogy of torture is very wrong too. The torture is what you get without the million dollars: you're without the million dollars. If you want to complicate things further... you can keep the million dollars when you die.
Still, it's refreshing to see another atheist who understands that proof is impossible.
Ah yeah that makes you a better person than me then. I'm sorry your holiness.
"If you want to complicate things further"
Yes, my point in adding on all those stipulations is that your analogy was oversimplsitic and sloppy. You could keep qualifying your million dollars analogy to infinity, and wouldn't reach the level of complexity that a God belief (and all the rammifications attached to it) would entail.
Stop using truncated, lazy examples and start giving evidence for your God.
(EDIT: Unrelated, but can someone tell me how to do a "hidden quote" thing? Like you have to hit the button to show the quote? I want to avoid having massive textwall quotes)
Analogies are analogues. They're not meant to be perfect. But obviously you couldn't have evidence for the money... I thought that would be obvious. Sloppy would be inaccurate, as you made it.
No need to change the subject. The analogy works perfectly well.
