RE: [split] Hello everyone
December 30, 2014 at 4:18 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2014 at 4:19 pm by Cyberman.)
(December 30, 2014 at 1:42 pm)Lambert Wrote: Well you know, I do not even know what theism is if that makes the atheist position possible for you. A theists believes in God or gods, let's say. If the concept God is not prior by nature to me how would I know what God is and what the very word God means if I cannot identify with it. Would my first question not be: "you believe in what?" unless the not-visible concept God is already prior to me by nature right from the start?
It's interesting and not a little revealing that you balk at well-defined terms such as "theism" because you don't know what it means, yet you have no problem with telling us what atheism means.
Are you saying that the concept of gods need to exist a priori in order to have a position about them? If so, would you accept the same argument regarding Star Wars fans and the existence of Darth Vader (or Dartford Valerie, as my autocorrect insists)?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
