Can you still be an atheist after this?

[Cinjin]

The irrational goat calling the rational sheep a sheep, now that’s funny.

yeah, I often hear people insulting others with the term 'goat'. Fucking dunderhead.

[Statler Waldorf]

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yeah, I often hear people insulting others with the term 'goat'. Fucking dunderhead.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QGkOGZubQ&NR=1

[Cinjin]

I have access to You Tube as well.

[searchingforanswers]

I don't think believing in a guy rising from the dead without more evidence is very rational statler.

[Statler Waldorf]

I don't think believing in a guy rising from the dead without more evidence is very rational statler.

...and why is that not rational? Can you demonstrate it is not?

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I have access to You Tube as well.

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Lol, touche. That was a pretty good one.

[Darwinian]

I don't think believing in a guy rising from the dead without more evidence is very rational statler.

...and why is that not rational? Can you demonstrate it is not?

Probably for the same reason that believing in a man with a mighty hammer than can summon the power of thunder and lightning isn't very rational or believing that there is a mystic river that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld isn't very rational or believing that.. Well, you get the idea...

[Statler Waldorf]

Probably for the same reason that believing in a man with a mighty hammer than can summon the power of thunder and lightning isn't very rational or believing that there is a mystic river that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld isn't very rational or believing that.. Well, you get the idea...

No, you’re going to have to explain better than that, because right now that’s a total non-sequitur. Just because believe in A is irrational it does not prove that believe in B is also irrational. Belief in Thor to me is irrational, but that does not mean that belief in Christ’s resurrection is also irrational.

[Darwinian]

But to me they are all equally irrational. Why does the story of Christ have any more verisimilitude than the story of Thor or Styx?

[Statler Waldorf]

But to me they are all equally irrational. Why does the story of Christ have any more verisimilitude than the story of Thor or Styx?

Well it’s probably because we do not believe in Thor and Styx for different reasons. I don’t believe in them because scripture says that no other Gods or supernatural powers exist like Thor or Styx. You probably don’t believe in them because of lack of evidence or because you are a naturalist. We are both being consistent in regards to our worldview in regards to the existence of Thor and Styx so we are both acting rationally here. If I didn’t believe in Thor because of lack of evidence but then believed in Christ’s resurrection because of evidence (assuming they both lacked evidence, most people would agree there is more evidence for Christ’s resurrection than for the existence of Thor) I would be behaving irrationally.

[Shell B]

most people would agree there is more evidence for Christ’s resurrection than for the existence of Thor

Would they? What is this "more evidence?" It is my understanding that evidence for both is pretty much summed up with religious stories and religious texts. There is no physical evidence for either.