(September 8, 2014 at 1:57 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(September 8, 2014 at 1:55 pm)naimless Wrote: It is an extraordinary claim for a human to not have a degree of belief in a deity of some description.(removing all the other stuff)
Nno, you've still got it wrong. Someone not believing in a deity isn't a claim, it's literally the opposite, it's simply that they don't accept the claims about the deity. There is no claim being made.
If you look at a species such as monkeys objectively and see that the majority of monkeys experience eating bananas and then a minority of monkeys don't experience eating bananas it is an extraordinary claim to say that the majority of monkeys do not experience eating bananas.
Similarly if you look at humans objectively, it is an extraordinary claim to say that the majority of humans don't experience some form of deity.
It does not matter if I subjectively experience bananas or deities, or not. The majority of monkeys and humans experience them, respectively. Therefore a claim to have found god for a human is not that extraordinary, objectively speaking. It is like a monkey claiming to have found a banana.
Whether I think the monkey has actually found a banana, or if the banana exists or not, is not relevant.
