You’ve never faced down your own mortality or been in a seriously dark place, have you? I have.
I’m sorry you lived something which left that kind of mark on you. However my or your anecdotal experiences do not constitute an argument.
So basically what you are saying is you don’t care about justice?
Evil needs to exist for us to recognise good. How can you acknowledge that something is good if you are not able to fathom its absence?
Also you seem to subtract the human element in whatever bad things happen as an action of someone, acting upon his free will. If we as a species are allowed the freedom to decide, it means we can act in a good way or in a bad way.
It is proof we have free will. If God only allowed good, it means we do not have free will.
Wishing children die before puberty is monstrous.
I never said I wished such thing. Don’t straw-man me.
You come into an atheism community and act all high and mighty as if you have something to impart to US?
I want to see you defend your point of view. I’m still waiting…
Many atheists I see online have been hurt by out just mock (sometimes rightfully) Christianity and then paint all religions with the same brush.
Often points are copied and shared around in such communities, like the problem of evil, without knowing that these points have been answered by scholars or philosophers.
If I’m being honest here, I don’t want you to argue out of ignorance and seek to open the door of the echo chamber to show you the other point of view so you can decide rationally.
You might think religious people (I’m talking about Islam) cannot defend their position, but it is the opposite actually with atheism.
Look things up, study, learn and make educated decisions. Don’t be afraid of your intellect.
No one in the real world cares about justice whether they’re religious or not. It’s always been a nebulous concept and one quickly rejected at the slightest hint of it being inconvenient to the rich or the community at large. No deity in ANY belief system changes that fact; if anything, they only highlight how illusory justice really is.
None of us atheists come to your mosques. Yet, you come in here with unprovable notions and demand others prove them wrong for you. I’m done going point for point with you and extended you far too much courtesy.
Yet, you come in here with unprovable notions and demand others prove them wrong for you
I never asked to disapprove my paradigm nor am I seeking to prove mine. I specifically challenged yours.
Without delving into the subcategories, basically agnostics say “we don’t know” when asked about the existence of God. They might not be convinced by the arguments for the existence of God but they do not take a position.
Atheists make the claim “there is no god”.
So I agree that whoever makes a claim needs to back it, so I simply ask about the arguments for the position you say you take.
Btw I don’t shy away from giving the proofs for my position. In this discussion I was not asked why I believe God exists.
I’m sorry you lived something which left that kind of mark on you. However my or your anecdotal experiences do not constitute an argument.
So basically what you are saying is you don’t care about justice?
Evil needs to exist for us to recognise good. How can you acknowledge that something is good if you are not able to fathom its absence?
Also you seem to subtract the human element in whatever bad things happen as an action of someone, acting upon his free will. If we as a species are allowed the freedom to decide, it means we can act in a good way or in a bad way. It is proof we have free will. If God only allowed good, it means we do not have free will.
I never said I wished such thing. Don’t straw-man me.
I want to see you defend your point of view. I’m still waiting…
Many atheists I see online have been hurt by out just mock (sometimes rightfully) Christianity and then paint all religions with the same brush.
Often points are copied and shared around in such communities, like the problem of evil, without knowing that these points have been answered by scholars or philosophers.
If I’m being honest here, I don’t want you to argue out of ignorance and seek to open the door of the echo chamber to show you the other point of view so you can decide rationally.
You might think religious people (I’m talking about Islam) cannot defend their position, but it is the opposite actually with atheism.
Look things up, study, learn and make educated decisions. Don’t be afraid of your intellect.
No one in the real world cares about justice whether they’re religious or not. It’s always been a nebulous concept and one quickly rejected at the slightest hint of it being inconvenient to the rich or the community at large. No deity in ANY belief system changes that fact; if anything, they only highlight how illusory justice really is.
None of us atheists come to your mosques. Yet, you come in here with unprovable notions and demand others prove them wrong for you. I’m done going point for point with you and extended you far too much courtesy.
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”
You have no evidence. And, absolutely nothing extraordinary.
The burden of proof lies on you. And, this is not the place for it it any case.
I never asked to disapprove my paradigm nor am I seeking to prove mine. I specifically challenged yours.
Without delving into the subcategories, basically agnostics say “we don’t know” when asked about the existence of God. They might not be convinced by the arguments for the existence of God but they do not take a position.
Atheists make the claim “there is no god”. So I agree that whoever makes a claim needs to back it, so I simply ask about the arguments for the position you say you take.
Btw I don’t shy away from giving the proofs for my position. In this discussion I was not asked why I believe God exists.