(October 19, 2016 at 3:24 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:Soldat Du Christ Wrote:All i keep hearing is disbelief
Disbelief is the appropriate response when someone has yet to adequately justify their claims. Do you want us, for some reason, to express belief in advance of you presenting compelling evidence?
You claim that God is real. We don't believe you. If you're fine with that, we're done with that topic. If you want us to believe you, you have to put in the work. It will be helpful if you have actual evidence (facts that indicate your proposition is true). Strong evidence is much better than weak evidence. We take the role of peer review, informing you of flaws in your evidence and logic. If there is a God, he could have handed you a killer argument that would convince anyone in five minutes. It's not our fault you don't have it.
Exactly!
And the fact you, Soldat Du Christ, find the arguments you presented, convincing, then that is a problem with your critical thinking skills, not ours.
As I pointed out earlier, Soldat Du Christ would most likely disbelieve the 1000's of people claiming they were abducted by aliens. And he would probably do so for good reasons; lack of demonstrable evidence being the best reason to disbelieve.
Yet when we disbelieve his unsupported god claims for the same reasons, he can't understand why.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
