RE: The Case for Atheism
August 13, 2013 at 4:07 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2013 at 4:10 pm by Chas.)
(August 13, 2013 at 3:30 pm)AnaMejiaP Wrote:(August 13, 2013 at 3:21 pm)CleanShavenJesus Wrote: Oh boy. Okay.
No, it does matter. The fact that you don't believe in Allah is, for some atheists, proof that there's no reason for them to believe in Yahweh. What's so unreasonable about Greek mythology compared to Christianity or Islam that it's branded "mythology"? The fact that there are other beliefs, each with about as much proof as yours, deters many from believing because it opens the mind to the question: "Wait, what makes one religion correct and the others incorrect?"
There's the point. How do you know that they're false? Religion is irrational for these reasons and more.
I see your point. Basically, you don't believe in a god because our ideology is either believing in a monotheistic or polytheistic religion when we reject the other?
No and no.
No, you are not seeing the point.
No, I don't believe in any god not because of different theologies, but because there is no evidence for any god.
The point about there being different theologies is to draw your attention to the fact that there are. You believe one but not all of the others.
Why don't you believe any of the others? They're silly? There's no evidence? They're somehow wrong? If you think critically about the others, it would be intellectually dishonest not to think critically about your own.
(August 13, 2013 at 3:56 pm)AnaMejiaP Wrote:(August 13, 2013 at 3:49 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Its been stated several times: demonstrable evidence and valid/sound logic.
I'll bet there are many supernatural claims (alien abductions, existence of Jinn, crystal healing, shapeshifting, etc, etc) that you disbelieve for the exact same reason why we disbelieve that a god exists. Lack of demonstrable evidence and valid/sound logic.
So here's another question: I have atheist friends who claim if God demonstrated he was real they will believe? Others have said that they will still not believe...what if you were given that demonstrable evidence and valid reasoning to believe?
If there were good evidence for the existence of a god, I would be forced to take that seriously. I haven't seen any yet.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
