RE: Evidence for atheist claims
May 3, 2016 at 1:46 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2016 at 1:47 pm by Redbeard The Pink.)
(May 3, 2016 at 11:40 am)Wryetui Wrote: ""God" always refers to a character from religion that is demonstrably non-existent (due to having contradictory qualities, not being in the expected location, etc.)", any examples that can back up these empty claims?
Gladly.
Jehovah, for instance, has the mutually contradictory qualities of omniscience and omnipotence. He is also described as a perfectly loving and moral god, which can't be possible if he, as an all-powerful being, created our Universe with advance knowledge of how badly his plan would go (sin, suffering, Hell, etc.). It means that either he wanted us to sin, die, and suffer (meaning he is not all-loving), or he could not prevent these things from being a part of his plan (meaning he is not all-powerful). For this and many more reasons, Jehovah cannot possibly have all the qualities attributed to him, therefore he cannot exist.
The Olympian gods, as another example, were said to live on top of Mount Olympus. They don't, though. There's basically nothing on top of Mount Olympus, or at least there was when we first achieved the summit.
The list goes on, but you get the idea (or probably not, actually).
There's also the problem of virtually all of these gods having traceable origins to human conception for a practical reason (need to explain, need to control, need to survive even if at others' expense, etc.). If you can trace a fiction back to the author(s) and/or reason it was contrived, it is asinine to then assert that the authors were receiving divine revelation and were unique in this regard. To acknowledge that it's "technically possible" for god to exist the way most soft atheists, do, I would have to also acknowledge that it's "technically possible" for Santa Claus and Gandalf to exist, but that's ridiculous. Those things are made up and don't exist. Don't be dense.
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com