Your stance on Hard Atheism

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

You 'know' no such thing. You merely believe it. Why? Because there are explanations for the phenomena that cause you to believe in God that are equally as good as the God-derived explanations. When you're faced with two equal sets of explanations and opt for one over the other (especially in view of lack of evidence for Godism and in spite of the overwhelmingly strong evidentiary support for naturalistic explanations) you've opted for belief over knowledge. Epistomologically, that's always been a weak stance to take.

That being said, I don't doubt the sincerity of your belief. That is to say, I don't think you're having us on or anything of that sort. I think you hold your beliefs deeply and seriously but at they end of the day, that's all they are - beliefs, not knowledge.

Boru

I may have already asked you before in another thread, but what would God have to do to prove to you that he exists? How high is your bar set.

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*indulgent chuckle* They're the same god, mate.

Boru

No, they are not. You don't get to define the characteristics of a supposedly fictional character that you did not create, just as you are not able to decide that Harry Potter is a purple giraffe without people correcting you.

You did ask, and I answered you. Yes, the bar is set pretty high (higher, at least, than the set of increasingly coincidental occurrences you referred to in your video): If people told me that they were going to pray to a particular god to re-grow my left eye and have it fully functional, and it happened, I would believe in that god. I had high hopes for Odin, but that came a cropper as well.

The difference between Allah and Jehovah is not a definitional one, but a semantic one. Bibles printed in Arabic us 'Allah' as a transliteration of 'God'. Both names refer to the God of Abraham (this is why the Big Three are called 'The Abrahamic Religions'). Differences between Allah and YHWH seem to be restricted to differences in worship and interpretation, and the case can be made that they aren't a lot greater than the differences between Catholicism and some of the more sedate Protestant franchises.

Boru