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<blockquote data-quote="god's_pawn" data-source="post: 61096945" data-attributes="member: 234901"><p>I'm sorry to say it, but I'm pretty sure you're going to have to accept the fact that atheism is a belief. This is evident from the fact that while I think it's fairly easy to produce evidence in favor of God (ontological, moral, teleological, and cosmological arguments considered), it's virtually impossible to bring real serious evidence for the non-existence of God. Thus you are forced to hold your position on a stronger commitment of faith than I do. I believe in God not because I was taught to, not because of preconceived notions about Him, but because I see no other explanation for the arguments I mentioned above.</p><p></p><p>As far as God's definition goes, I think I'm going to have to conclude that perhaps you misunderstood the definition of God. Obviously, I don't know what you really believed about Him, so I could very well be wrong, but I'm not sure how else you would have come to your conclusion about Him being a projection. How can finite beings project an infinite one? A projection must carry all or some of the qualities of the projector, yet we do not have the qualities of omniscience, omnipotence, atemporality, omnibenevolence, omnipresence, and other infinite and unlimiting qualities of God. How could we possibly project those? God is, by definition, a "maximally great being" which is to say, to best, biggest, most powerful being that could possibly (or even impossibly?) exist. To say that He's just a projection seems to ignore that fact. Perhaps I misunderstand you though, so I will allow you to correct me if I am indeed wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="god's_pawn, post: 61096945, member: 234901"] I'm sorry to say it, but I'm pretty sure you're going to have to accept the fact that atheism is a belief. This is evident from the fact that while I think it's fairly easy to produce evidence in favor of God (ontological, moral, teleological, and cosmological arguments considered), it's virtually impossible to bring real serious evidence for the non-existence of God. Thus you are forced to hold your position on a stronger commitment of faith than I do. I believe in God not because I was taught to, not because of preconceived notions about Him, but because I see no other explanation for the arguments I mentioned above. As far as God's definition goes, I think I'm going to have to conclude that perhaps you misunderstood the definition of God. Obviously, I don't know what you really believed about Him, so I could very well be wrong, but I'm not sure how else you would have come to your conclusion about Him being a projection. How can finite beings project an infinite one? A projection must carry all or some of the qualities of the projector, yet we do not have the qualities of omniscience, omnipotence, atemporality, omnibenevolence, omnipresence, and other infinite and unlimiting qualities of God. How could we possibly project those? God is, by definition, a "maximally great being" which is to say, to best, biggest, most powerful being that could possibly (or even impossibly?) exist. To say that He's just a projection seems to ignore that fact. Perhaps I misunderstand you though, so I will allow you to correct me if I am indeed wrong. [/QUOTE]
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