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Failure condition for god
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RE: Failure condition for god
Truth doesn't require falsifiability, but any meaningful claim does. Otherwise we can have no way of knowing anything about whether it is true or not and are simply guessing or making stuff up.

If the god claim cannot be falsified, it is useless and claiming to have belief or knowledge about something we can know absolutely nothing about is irrational.

Whether people care that it is irrational is another matter. The best you have is "it could be true, and I like it, so I'm going to say I believe it". By definition, any reasons you have for believing it are irrational as the claim is such that we can know nothing about it.

Whether you actually believe it, or just say you do, is yet another issue.

If you're just going to assert it is true, god exists, then that is ridiculous.
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Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 5, 2015 at 1:25 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Norman Humann - April 5, 2015 at 1:27 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by downbeatplumb - April 7, 2015 at 2:55 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 5, 2015 at 1:29 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Minimalist - April 5, 2015 at 1:35 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by AFTT47 - April 5, 2015 at 1:40 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by watchamadoodle - April 5, 2015 at 1:38 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Iroscato - April 5, 2015 at 1:38 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 5, 2015 at 1:40 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Ravenshire - April 7, 2015 at 1:26 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Zen Badger - April 11, 2015 at 6:26 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by Mudhammam - April 5, 2015 at 2:25 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 5, 2015 at 2:28 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by JuliaL - April 5, 2015 at 2:45 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 5, 2015 at 2:58 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by JuliaL - April 5, 2015 at 3:36 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by comet - April 5, 2015 at 3:03 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 5, 2015 at 3:08 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Iroscato - April 5, 2015 at 3:23 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 5, 2015 at 3:26 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Iroscato - April 5, 2015 at 3:42 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 5, 2015 at 3:41 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Ben Davis - April 7, 2015 at 9:32 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 5, 2015 at 3:45 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by JuliaL - April 5, 2015 at 4:03 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 7, 2015 at 7:00 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by watchamadoodle - April 7, 2015 at 9:35 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 7, 2015 at 9:47 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by watchamadoodle - April 7, 2015 at 11:05 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by Spooky - April 7, 2015 at 11:16 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by You_remember - April 7, 2015 at 11:17 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by Iroscato - April 7, 2015 at 1:14 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by FatAndFaithless - April 7, 2015 at 11:19 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 7, 2015 at 1:11 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 10, 2015 at 3:42 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by Ben Davis - April 10, 2015 at 5:56 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by Neo-Scholastic - April 10, 2015 at 10:26 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by dyresand - April 10, 2015 at 3:47 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Iroscato - April 11, 2015 at 8:35 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 10, 2015 at 11:45 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by Pizza - April 10, 2015 at 6:04 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 11, 2015 at 2:45 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by Pizza - April 11, 2015 at 5:36 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - April 11, 2015 at 5:28 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 11, 2015 at 5:39 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by Pizza - April 11, 2015 at 7:03 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by John V - April 11, 2015 at 6:33 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - April 11, 2015 at 6:38 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by jesus_wept - April 11, 2015 at 6:36 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by John V - April 11, 2015 at 7:14 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by jesus_wept - April 11, 2015 at 4:12 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 11, 2015 at 6:44 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - April 11, 2015 at 8:51 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by John V - April 11, 2015 at 9:33 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 11, 2015 at 8:52 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 11, 2015 at 9:38 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by John V - April 11, 2015 at 10:03 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by MysticKnight - April 11, 2015 at 4:47 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Iroscato - April 11, 2015 at 5:00 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Chas - April 11, 2015 at 5:03 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by MysticKnight - April 11, 2015 at 5:07 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Chas - April 11, 2015 at 5:14 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by MysticKnight - April 11, 2015 at 5:27 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Chas - April 11, 2015 at 5:33 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by MysticKnight - April 11, 2015 at 5:19 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Chas - April 11, 2015 at 5:21 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by IATIA - April 11, 2015 at 5:23 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Iroscato - April 11, 2015 at 5:22 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by MysticKnight - April 11, 2015 at 5:38 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Chas - April 11, 2015 at 5:40 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by MysticKnight - April 11, 2015 at 5:41 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Iroscato - April 11, 2015 at 5:41 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by MysticKnight - April 11, 2015 at 5:42 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Chas - April 11, 2015 at 5:44 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by MysticKnight - April 11, 2015 at 5:45 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Chas - April 11, 2015 at 5:46 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Iroscato - April 11, 2015 at 5:49 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by MysticKnight - April 11, 2015 at 6:01 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Chas - April 11, 2015 at 6:04 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by MysticKnight - April 11, 2015 at 6:05 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Chas - April 11, 2015 at 6:06 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by MysticKnight - April 11, 2015 at 5:47 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Chas - April 11, 2015 at 5:50 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by MysticKnight - April 11, 2015 at 6:09 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Iroscato - April 11, 2015 at 6:14 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by MysticKnight - April 11, 2015 at 6:16 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Iroscato - April 11, 2015 at 6:20 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Chas - April 11, 2015 at 6:18 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Aroura - April 11, 2015 at 6:42 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 11, 2015 at 8:22 pm
RE: Failure condition for god - by Pizza - April 12, 2015 at 3:57 am
RE: Failure condition for god - by robvalue - April 12, 2015 at 5:12 am

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