RE: If I were an Atheist
March 18, 2015 at 1:49 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2015 at 2:02 pm by The Reality Salesman01.)
What tactic? Consider the following statement:
I don't believe in any gods.
What can else can be extracted from this statement other than the fact that there was an utterer of this statement, the utterer is aware of the word god, they acknowledged by pluralizing it that there's not just one version being solicited, and at the moment, they don't believe in them. Clearly they believe in something since they must believe that they are capable of credulity as they have just described a personal position of it in relation to an alleged entity that has been proposed to be worthy of it. They lack belief in gods.
Even if one made the assertion that "There are no gods" without being able to prove a negative, your inability to prove that there IS a God would only reinforce the negative position as the most reasonable option. Rather than prove there is no God, all one would need to do is show that there's no reason to accept the positive position, and the null position is the most reasonable. Your fighting a sentence rather than making an argument. You might want to spend some time reflecting on why it's so hard for you to make God sound reasonable when you don't get to tell people what their words mean. Just a thought.
This.
http://youtu.be/sNDZb0KtJDk
I don't believe in any gods.
What can else can be extracted from this statement other than the fact that there was an utterer of this statement, the utterer is aware of the word god, they acknowledged by pluralizing it that there's not just one version being solicited, and at the moment, they don't believe in them. Clearly they believe in something since they must believe that they are capable of credulity as they have just described a personal position of it in relation to an alleged entity that has been proposed to be worthy of it. They lack belief in gods.
Even if one made the assertion that "There are no gods" without being able to prove a negative, your inability to prove that there IS a God would only reinforce the negative position as the most reasonable option. Rather than prove there is no God, all one would need to do is show that there's no reason to accept the positive position, and the null position is the most reasonable. Your fighting a sentence rather than making an argument. You might want to spend some time reflecting on why it's so hard for you to make God sound reasonable when you don't get to tell people what their words mean. Just a thought.
This.
http://youtu.be/sNDZb0KtJDk