RE: 3 Questions For Believers (A work in progress.)
July 1, 2014 at 1:06 am
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2014 at 1:13 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 1, 2014 at 12:56 am)Lek Wrote: If I believe I have the truth and then I discover someone else has the truth, then I would realize that I was wrong in believing what I did. So I'm not saying an atheist and a theist both hold the truth. Living a good life doesn't prove you have the truth, but it is an indicator that might get my attention and cause me to investigate what you believe. If I found that you are right and I accepted that, then I would abandon my present belief.Which, again, and for the same reason - would be irrational. But I want to mention here that a persons life has ceased to be evidence, and is now just an "indicator" -in your statements. This is the type of stuff I like to see. Thank you.
You see, no matter how you employ this line of reasoning it is irrational, because the premise and assumptions don't lead to the conclusions. The reason it keeps happening this way has nothing to do with the assumptions. You could put anything in this line of reasoning and all you would get back is garbage. "If you found that I was right" is to say that "if I found out that no god has blessed his life (that's my claim..that's what I would be right about.I am claiming that my life is blessed...because there is no god - that no god has the power to do that, that blessing my life is the sort of thing that no god will, and can do..on and on - that go god's blessings in my life is an indicator of no god's existence. A real and palpable force) - I would abandon belief in god" doesn't even make sense.
I have been asking you whether or not you would accept your line of reasoning - as support of my position. If I argued to you, of my position - using your lines..........do you think that you might be able to pick it apart? Not my position....I'm accepting yours as true to reach conclusions, you can do the same to mine. The argument.
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