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I don't hate him. I'm dissappointed...disenchanted...very impressed with storm's answer and very disgusted with my own.
Just curious, but why? and I didn't delete a part of the sentence for nothing..I do hate the suffering ..........over the ages.
Prove he is a myth.
Prove he isn't. The burden isn't on people that don't believe, as Christians are the ones stating "there is a god. and you need to do x,y,z, ect to get into heaven"
The rational folks would happy not to hear one more TV sweater asking for money.
No, the burden of proof is on whoever makes positive claim.Prove he isn't. The burden isn't on people that don't believe, as Christians are the ones stating "there is a god. and you need to do x,y,z, ect to get into heaven"
No, the burden of proof is on whoever makes positive claim.
If you said that, you'd be making positive claim.Generally that's true, but in this case, I disagree. It's just like me saying that I've seen a 10-foot-tall scaled guinea pig who can breath fire and fly. Do you automatically assume it's true? I doubt it. You wouldn't believe me unless I gave you some kind of proof, and since the claim is so outlandish, I'd have to give you some good proof.
I disagree that we assume everything is false until proven true.Humans tend to be skeptics, which means that we assume something is false or doesn't exist until proven otherwise. It's like being innocent until proven guilty. As the defendant in a case, I have to do nothing, while the plaintiff has to do all of the proving. All I then have to do is poke holes in the argument.
If you said that, you'd be making positive claim.
Where in the world did you get that idea?So are you saying that in that case, if you refute my claim, that you'd have the burden of proof, since you'd then be making the positive claim that that being doesn't exist?
Not unless you met the burden of proof.And would you believe that I had seen such a thing if I told you I had?
Where in the world did you get that idea?
Not unless you met the burden of proof.
The burden of proof CAN rest on atheists, when they make positive claim.I assumed when you said "No" to mudge's claim that Christians had the burden of proof, that you thought the burden of proof could rest on atheists. Is that a false assumption?
Exactly my point.