RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
May 31, 2015 at 6:49 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2015 at 7:03 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:As stated, I have a very difficult time believe that "no" answer is not predicated on anything and is simply a no because. Now if you wish to stress it is a simple no because, then so be it as long as you are willing to accept a yes because.Hey hey now, no one said it isn't predicate on anything, but there's no requirement that said atheist know what that "thing" is - or even that there be a "thing" to begin with. As a child, I hadn't yet poured over the worlds various god claims. I hadn't scrutinized apologetic arguments. I didn't believe,.....why? Because I didn't believe, plain and simple eh? Still don't. Of course, we might like to think that it's a brilliant argument that led us to whatever position we hold on the subject...but chances are it isn't (regardless of which side of the issue we're on). I've never been presented with anything which challenges that same no I would have offered you when I was 5 or 6, so I couldn't tell you, with a straight face, that reason (for example) is -why- I don't believe, even though I do feel that my position is reasonable. I could say "because", or I could give you a laundry list of reasons, both would be true, now - but it hasn't always been so and there's no requirement that people have any reason whatsoever. Nor, obviously, is anyone required to have a reason for their belief in god - whatever additional requirements they have for their own belief are their own business. If they want to have a rational belief, then they've decided to subject the justifications for their belief to those requirements - even though the status of their belief in and of itself has no such responsibility..basically, we're dealing with two separate questions.
Do you believe in gods?
No - atheism
Why don't you believe in gods?
-insert things here- not atheism.....
I'm not sure why you're having trouble?
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