RE: Any Theists on AF, I Challenge You to a Debate on the Existence of God
December 30, 2014 at 7:06 pm
(December 26, 2014 at 1:23 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Requiring physical proof is a weakness of mind.
The mind has many weaknesses and can glitch in countless interesting ways. That's why it's nothing short of insane to have faith in a god that doesn't speak out loud, for everyone to hear. Even if you might be right and God is speaking to you, how do you tell it apart from every other sort of hallucination or misunderstanding? Do you know how your brain works so well that you can tell false alarms from holy messages?
Of course you don't. You can't. When you operate under the assumption you do, that's a weakness of the mind.
If you wonder why we can't believe, I think many atheists would agree that the very core of unbelief is that it is logically impossible to have total faith in God (to say nothing of knowledge) without also having equally total faith not only in the integrity of your mind, but in your ability to correctly interpret everything in it.
If you can't justify that kind of faith (and I sure as hell can't), you can't justify faith in an invisible and silent god.
