RE: Atheism liberated me from pointless thinking,and made my life enjoyable.
October 20, 2014 at 1:43 pm
(October 20, 2014 at 1:25 pm)Lek Wrote:(October 20, 2014 at 11:24 am)Esquilax Wrote: This, by the way, is the same logic that we use to identify mental illness; the mentally ill are another group of people who believe things based on personal experience that are not demonstrable too. You're just lucky that your specific claim has a shield of cultural acceptability around it, Lek.
So you believe that all theists are mentally ill? Presidents, doctors, lawyers, teachers, businessmen, etc - all productive members of society, not patients in a mental facility or unable to cope in a normal society. If a person is hopelessly living in a world of drugs and alcohol, and then turns around his life and credits it to his experience with God, that's not evidence of God? If I hear person after person telling me about God has changed their lives, I guess I can't believe them unless I do an experiment in a controlled environment. Even though I'm the one experiencing God, I really can't believe myself. You can refuse to believe because you see no evidence, but you're going too far in trying to discredit the testimonies, off hand, of rational, functioning, honest people about their own experiences.
STRAWMAN!