M.D. Rawlings
Classical Liberal
I would challenge anyone demanding proof of a god's existence to provide similar proof of their own existence. Not the existence of their body, or even their brain, but proof that the thing they refer to when they say "I" actually exists.
Do anyone else
Gods are a human construct to deal with fear of the unknown.All religions have their genesis in fear.
I don't think that's true. Familar with some ancient Greek and Roman sects where fear is not what first comes to mind.
Right.
The idea of God isn't at the base of human knowledge touching on the concerns of ontological origination. The inescapable fact of human cognition is a mere illusion. So tell me, in truth, what precisely are you denying first? The existence of God or the existence of the universally apparent, objectively self-subsistent construct?
Right.
Like every time you open your mouth to deny the existence of God you don't as a matter of necessity acknowledge the fact that the idea exists in and of itself, i.e., imposes itself on the human mind without the same willing that it do so.
Here's the real truth: atheism is the irrationalism of the unexamined mind, i.e., the stuff of an unexamined life with an attention span of a two-year-old. And all the silly statements I'm reading on this thread regarding the essence of that construct and those confounding the potentialities of the various revelations alleged to come from the God of nature follow from this very same kind of underdeveloped attention span.
Like being gay, it takes a lot to come out of the closet and say you don't believe in god. Sorry, can't fake it. If we don't believe it doesn't make us bad people we just don't buy your stories. What religion are you? If you are a christian, do you believe the Muslim stories? How about the Mormon stories?
So you and I are both atheists. You just believe in one more god than I do.
Telling me that an atheist doesn't believe that God exists is not telling me anything profound. However, telling me that theism is predicated on fear or sheer faith is silly. Theism, in and of itself, is predicated on reason. As I have irrefutably shown, atheism is predicated on sheer faith in defiance of reason. Objectively speaking, if atheism is true, it's true in spite of the ramifications of sound reasoning.