(September 8, 2014 at 2:13 pm)naimless Wrote:(September 8, 2014 at 1:57 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: (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.
The extraordinary part being that no one can prove that deities are real, as opposed to bananas.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html