By definition.
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Your best argument that god exists
- Thread starter Skwim
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Bunyip
pro scapegoat
Ok sure.
Theism: The belief in a theistic deity.
Atheism: The absence of that belief.
Bunyip
pro scapegoat
Nope, sorry.
And what about the hard theist, who believes that God does not exist?
Bunyip
pro scapegoat
What about them?
A burden easily shuffled.
They fail entirely to have an absence of belief.
Bunyip
pro scapegoat
What? That is a great example of how sentences get reduced to gibberish when you are trying to play with semantics.
outhouse
Atheistically
No
Do you believe 2 is the answer to 1 + 1 = ???????????? Or do you know the answer is 2. I don't believe the answer is 2, I know it is.
Same with deities.
I'm sorry, I don't fail to have a belief about the incorrectness of 1+1= anything.
If it's gibberish to you, I can only assume that you don't understand English.
And I thank you, I thank you,
For doing your duty
You keepers of truth
You guardians of beauty
Awkward Fingers
Omphaloskeptic
I'm an atheist.
I don't affirm god doesn't exist.
I don't believe god doesn't exist, because I haven't been given reason to believe he does.
Otherwise, what is your excuse for believing in everything that you don't believe in, for example.
Why don't you believe in Krampus, and what proof do you have that there is no Krampus?
Bunyip
pro scapegoat
"They fail entirely to have an absence of belief". You have twisted that up to the point of being illegible.
That would be better written in English as "They have a belief", adding the two extra negatives was unecessary.
Or... legible, depending on your slant.
"I have a belief that god does not exist," is pretty explicit.
They (hard atheists) have a belief that god does not exist.
Bunyip
pro scapegoat
Sure, but so much less honest and accurate.
A better way to put it would be; I don't believe god exists.
As I said, structuring it as a positive claim seems just pointless to me.
You mean, they don't believe god exists?
Or that there is no god (is what I believe).
Yes. Precisely. There is no god.
It suggests a way the world is, so yes, it's a posit.
Posit: posit - definition of posit in English from the Oxford dictionary
If it's put forth as true, it's a posit.
Bunyip
pro scapegoat
No, it is just the default.
No need to keep going around in circles, I'm bored and so am going out.
The default of what?
Bunyip
pro scapegoat
Belief.