Here's the other thing that's so frustrating about these condescending little fiat theists making their assertions: atheism doesn't necessarily deny the possibility of the supernatural. Gods, certainly, but gods aren't the only thing that could be supernatural and if these jokers want to argue for guardian angels or ghosts communicating or whatever, there's nothing specifically within our position that would preclude us from accepting that, we just need better evidence than "because I said so," or "it's obvious."
That the theists in this thread would rather pretend that our position forces us to look elsewhere demonstrates either a profound ignorance of what atheism actually is, or a similar level of dishonesty in that they'd rather strawman us to make us look like we're making ineffectual excuses, rather than addressing the argument as it really is. There's a decent conversation to be had here, but the theists don't want to have it; they'd rather go on the attack and grandstand than do any sort of hard work in engaging with their claims.
It's actually terribly sad that the atheists are more interested in seriously examining the theistic claims than the theists are, but then, intellectual laziness is kinda the hallmark of that belief in general, so...
That the theists in this thread would rather pretend that our position forces us to look elsewhere demonstrates either a profound ignorance of what atheism actually is, or a similar level of dishonesty in that they'd rather strawman us to make us look like we're making ineffectual excuses, rather than addressing the argument as it really is. There's a decent conversation to be had here, but the theists don't want to have it; they'd rather go on the attack and grandstand than do any sort of hard work in engaging with their claims.
It's actually terribly sad that the atheists are more interested in seriously examining the theistic claims than the theists are, but then, intellectual laziness is kinda the hallmark of that belief in general, so...
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