Atheistic Double Standard?

[It Aint Necessarily So]

I will insult anyone I choose to insult, and I will do it anytime I choose to do it.

Obviously.

And your threshold for so doing appears to be very low.

How many tails does an ape lack? They lack no tails because they never required tails, and no tails are expected of them.

Are you still arguing this point? It is completely played out. Your definition of "lack" only includes a deficiency with a need. Mine, which is general usage, can refer to either a need or an absence without a need.

But surely you lack God.

Agreed, and have for decades. I have no need for that belief.

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

I am not playing games at all. Most atheists do claim that no God exists

Wrong.

 

[Sonofason]

Obviously.

And your threshold for so doing appears to be very low.



Are you still arguing this point? It is completely played out. Your definition of "lack" only includes a deficiency with a need. Mine, which is general usage, can refer to either a need or an absence without a need.



Agreed, and have for decades. I have no need for that belief.

To lack does require a deficiency.

 

[Sonofason]

Wrong.

Nope, I'm absolutely right about this. You are wrong.

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

To lack does require a deficiency.

Seriously? Still? You're perseverating.

 

[Sonofason]

Seriously? Still? You're perseverating.

I'll beat a dead horse until it's completely unrecognizable.

 

[CogentPhilosopher]

I had said that I don't know exactly how it came to pass that I have come to the conclusion pretty much on my own that there is indeed a God..

If you don't know how it came to pass, then how do you know if your conclusion is a logical one?

 

[CogentPhilosopher]

You are entitled to your opinions.

More so than my feelings on the god of the bible was my point that you can have feelings about characters that you think or know are fictional.

 

[Sonofason]

If you don't know how it came to pass, then how do you know if your conclusion is a logical one?

It's only necessary that I believe it is.

 

[CogentPhilosopher]

It's only necessary that I believe it is.

So you are okay with believing in something for illogical reasons?

 

[Sonofason]

So you are okay with believing in something for illogical reasons?

Of course not. If I thought my beliefs were illogical, I wouldn't have them.

 

[CogentPhilosopher]

Of course not. If I thought my beliefs were illogical, I wouldn't have them.

So you would want to be sure that your beliefs are logical then?

 

[CogentPhilosopher]

It's only necessary that I believe it is.

But believing it is true does not make it true.

Are you okay with believing something that is not true?

 

[Sonofason]

So you would want to be sure that your beliefs are logical then?

No, I only need to believe that my beliefs are logical.

 

[Sonofason]

But believing it is true does not make it true.

Are you okay with believing something that is not true?

It is true that believing something is true does not make it true.
I am okay with believing in something that is not true, so long as I have not been convinced that what I believe in is not true.

 

[CogentPhilosopher]

It is true that believing something is true does not make it true.
I am okay with believing in something that is not true, so long as I have not been convinced that what I believe in is not true.

So you are okay with lying to yourself?

 

[Sonofason]

I don't lie to anyone...not even myself. To lie requires intent. I assure you, if my beliefs are wrong, I don't know it, and so far, no person has been capable of proving me wrong for holding the beliefs that I have.

 

[Jeremiahcp]

I'll beat a dead horse until it's completely unrecognizable.

As far as I can tell, that is the general purpose of Internet forum debates.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Lots of people choose titles for themselves that are inappropriate to them. I have spoken to many atheists who clearly hate the God that they claim does not exist.

Consider the possibility that they hate God in the same way they hate, say, Hannibal Lecter or Darth Vader.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Of course atheists use it according to the first sense, as it is absolutely necessary to be perceived as reasonable.

Theists use it in the first sense, too, if you look at how they actually use the word rather than how they say they use it.