Since the discussion is on atheism, let's use an atheist example.
If you have knowledge of God, but do not believe in God... is your knowledge still a belief?
If you are Agnostic, does your knowledge of God now create a suspended belief dependent on proof accepted by the individual?
The real...
Uh... knowledge is what you, as an individual, learn. It doesn't make it true. It doesn't make it justified. It doesn't make it a belief.
I have the knowledge of Bigfoot. It doesn't mean I believe it. It doesn't make it true... and it is not justified.
Ugh. So it's your fault.
This stuff is like intellect acid... I think I feel my brain starting to drip out my ear.
"A belief has to be justified and true, to be a justified true belief" God strike me down because I don't deserve to be in the presence of such wisdom.
Take a day away from the...
It is not a perception. I can prove it.
Any society that has grown up without the book of Mormon... or any individual that has never read the Book of Mormon... doesn't know what the book of Mormon says.
If all the religious holy books somehow "reveal themswlves" in people's heads, then...
Like those who ignore the Old Testament as God's final word.
Notice how God himself never comes down at all in the New Testament like he did in the old?
Apparently he interfered enough for a virgin birth, so it's a bit of a stretch that this jealous, powerful god would give away his...
Once brainwashed to ignore reality, and to rely on an imaginary friend, it's really just a matter of which imaginary friend you like better.
Conversion, means nothing.
We may not have free will and be completely governed by physics that is 100% predictable. We simply aren't at a stage of brain development to consider the vast number of variables.
It doesn't mean you have to wear religious headgear.
Yes. Like Jesus, who has usurped Yahweh's power, as the non-believers follow that golden calf.
Throughout the Old Testament, when Yahweh's most staunch believers have called to him, he came.
Jesus himself recognized this when, shortly before his death, he cried out to God "Why have you...
Kids mimic their parents by observation all the time. Big deal. Depending on the age, they can also mimic friends and things on TV.
I can't believe I'm engaging this.
If another god, through divine intervention, wiped all the Holy Bibles, printed and electronic, off the face of the Earth...
... how would the Christians then know what God wanted, and what hey had to do to get to heaven?
They rely solely on the printed word. A book. A material possession. All...
Merriam Webster defines "rational" as:
: based on facts or reason and not on emotions or feelings
: having the ability to reason or think about things clearly
Gambit will like this one...
... since God is based only on emotions and feelings, belief in God is not rational.
It's like painting all Germans like Hitler because he was German. Or all black people are saints because of Martin Luther King. It's a dumb argument. Individuals are just that. Individuals.
Atheists bring up the religious wrongdoings in *response* to the self righteous claim that God can do no...