(June 19, 2014 at 3:55 pm)Napoléon Wrote: I think fr0d0 would call that a false dichotomy, there should be another sentence:
"x cannot be proven or disproved but I choose to believe x"
Then again I wouldn't want to speak on his behalf, but I imagine that's what a xtian's response would be.
Having an unknown doesn't make the idea of "choosing" a belief any less absurd.
"x is true but I choose to not believe x."
"x is false but I choose to believe x."
"x is unknown but I choose to believe x."
The "x is true/false/unknown" part is itself a belief so you're basically saying you believe in a contradiction.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
