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Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?

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Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 24, 2013 at 3:54 am
(December 24, 2013 at 2:58 am)savedwheat Wrote: Must be 1.

And how do you know it's the one you believe in?
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 24, 2013 at 4:05 am
Because I can't find a naturalistic explanation to account for the eyewitness testimony of the Apostles.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 24, 2013 at 4:13 am
(December 24, 2013 at 4:05 am)savedwheat Wrote: Because I can't find a naturalistic explanation to account for the eyewitness testimony of the Apostles.

1) They are Misquoted

2) They are lying

3) They forgot
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 24, 2013 at 4:18 am
(December 24, 2013 at 4:05 am)savedwheat Wrote: Because I can't find a naturalistic explanation to account for the eyewitness testimony of the Apostles.

And even if one could discount La Ban Dien's possibilities- you can't, by the way- all you'd be left with is an argument from ignorance: "I can't explain it, and therefore god."

Well, I can't explain it, and therefore no god.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 24, 2013 at 4:20 am (This post was last modified: December 24, 2013 at 4:20 am by Zen Badger.)
(December 24, 2013 at 4:05 am)savedwheat Wrote: Because I can't find a naturalistic explanation to account for the eyewitness testimony of the Apostles.

It was made up, as was most of the bible.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 24, 2013 at 4:47 am
(December 24, 2013 at 4:05 am)savedwheat Wrote: Because I can't find a naturalistic explanation to account for the eyewitness testimony of the Apostles.

Argument from ignorance fallacy.

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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 24, 2013 at 5:06 am
All naturalistic explanations have been exhausted so no ignorance.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 24, 2013 at 5:17 am
(December 24, 2013 at 5:06 am)savedwheat Wrote: All naturalistic explanations have been exhausted so no ignorance.

Really? So you have eliminated exaggeration, lying, invention, later editing, text selection, over-statement, myth, logical explanation......

That's quite an achievement. Excuse me for not believing a word of it.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 24, 2013 at 5:36 am
(December 24, 2013 at 5:06 am)savedwheat Wrote: All naturalistic explanations have been exhausted so no ignorance.

Bullshit. I'm tiring of these baseless assertions you keep making, dude: for starters, you've got absolutely no way of determining that all naturalistic explanations have even been considered, let alone discarded. Secondly, saying "all these other things don't work, so therefore this is the case" is the argument from ignorance by definition.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 24, 2013 at 5:42 am
(December 24, 2013 at 4:05 am)savedwheat Wrote: Because I can't find a naturalistic explanation to account for the eyewitness testimony of the Apostles.

I can't find a naturalistic explanation for the eye witness testimony of what happened in mount Olympus... with all those gods and all...

Neither for the rising into the heavens on a Pegasus by Mohammed...

Neither for the trip to Valhalla that so many Vikings witnessed and wrote about...

Neither for all the eye witness accounts of how the Egyptian pharaoh was an actual deity...

And don't forget Plato's eye witness account of Atlantis...
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