RE: No rational case for God = increasingly desperate attacks on atheists
July 10, 2014 at 12:06 pm
(July 10, 2014 at 11:52 am)ManMachine Wrote: Yes, like I just said above, I was using a narrower definition of atheism. I accept that there is a difference between rejecting the belief in the existence of deities and asserting they do not exist.Hmmm. I do affirmatively assert that some particular deities don't exist because there is evidence that they do not. For example I affirmatively believe that god as described in the Bible does not exist. I think there's evidence that there isn't a god who parted the Red Sea, or flooded the earth, or created the earth in six days. But I'm more than willing to look at evidence to the contrary. That I don't think is a leap of faith.
I would stand by the position that anyone specifically asserting deities do not exist (as opposed to rejecting a belief in deities) is taking a leap of faith.
MM
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.