XPost: alt.athiesm, alt.flame.jesus.christ, alt.talk.creationism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: me@nothere.biz   
      
   On 30-December-2014 2:11 PM, Free Lunch wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:02:04 +1100, felix_unger wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 30-December-2014 1:27 PM, Malte Runz wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "felix_unger" skrev i meddelelsen   
   >>> news:cgdpvbFdtgnU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >>>   
   >>> (snip)   
   >>>   
   >>>> ... atheists cannot prove God does not exist, you can only believe it   
   >>>> to be the case, and so you have faith that belief is correct.   
   >>> And so do you, have faith, when you believe in the non-existence of   
   >>> invisible pink unicorns in a parallel universe, right?   
   >> I have faith (confidence) in a belief that such a proposition is   
   >> nonsense is true   
   > Yet the IPU relies on exactly as much evidence   
      
   wrong. there is no evidence for the IPU   
      
   > as the deity you worship.   
      
   and still you lie about me. if you continue to do so, I will disengage.   
   I might as well, you have persisted on every occasion that I have   
   engaged with you.   
      
   >   
   >>> I don't believe we're all brains soaking in pods in a matrix, either,   
   >>> even if I can't prove it, and it doesn't take faith to not believe it.   
   >>> I live my life, as if we aren't 'soakers' and as if there are no gods.   
   >>> All three possibilites are equally absurd, and to make it a question   
   >>> about faith shows a lack of understanding.   
   >>>   
   >>> But... why can't you and so many of the, openly, theistic minded,   
   >>> understand that it does not take faith to not believe in something,   
   >>> which takes faith to have belief in the existence of?   
   >> it doesn't take faith to not believe, but it takes faith to believe that   
   >> a belief is correct/true. ie.. one has faith that ones belief is   
   >> correct. Is it not so?   
   > It is not so.   
   >   
   > It takes no faith not to believe in deities.   
   >   
   > It takes no faith to accept scientific evidence.   
   >   
   > It takes no faith to accept logical proofs.   
      
   ok, prove there is no God. you can't.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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