RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 29, 2015 at 3:29 pm
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2015 at 3:36 pm by Silver.)
(January 29, 2015 at 3:23 pm)SteveII Wrote: How is it dishonest to think another religion is wrong? They cannot be all right.
The genuine irony that theists seem to always overlook is that the criteria a Christian uses to dismiss Islam as a true religion is the exact same criteria Islam uses to dismiss Christianity as a true religion.
(January 29, 2015 at 3:23 pm)SteveII Wrote: You missed the point. The conclusion that the person in question was deluded would not be a proper scientific conclusion unless you posit there is no God in which case you have overstepped science and moved on to philosophy.
It is logical and reasonable to apply the same criteria for one who genuinely believes in the existence of leprechauns and hears their voices to a theist who genuinely believes in the existence of god and hears his voice.
When there is absolutely zero evidence for the existence of something that veritably belongs in a fairy tale book and has been reasonably labeled as mythology, then it is a safe bet to logically deduce that it does not exist anywhere except as a delusion in the mind of the believer.
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