(November 3, 2014 at 10:03 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I don't know is a valid personal answer, but when, it get's made into something everyone should universally say, that's more then I don't know.
I didn't actually intend to go quite that far, but I will now. Anyone who cannot demonstrate god or that he is much more probably than not, and yet believes in him is acting irrationally.
Quote:That's a stance that we all ought not to know God exists.Absent proof that god is at a minimum more probable than not, yes no one can rationally claim to know god exists.
Do I want to prevent them from believing? No. The thought police are always a bad idea.
Quote: And if God exists, and there could be many reasons to want us to able sense his existence, it seems the general atheist stance would be that God even if he exists ought to not spiritually known/seen/detected by people which is unproven.
If "spiritual knowledge" had any validity, the sensors would sense the same god, yet they don't.
Quote:This is where I think Atheism takes a negative illogical stance. There is about one Atheist on here that I've seen that didn't take this stance and that was Tiberius. He stated he simply doesn't know and takes no stance on whether Theists do know or do not know God exists.
Tiberius if more tolerant of fools, than I am. But I do believe theists at least think they have knowledge.
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.