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dingdong is a diamond in the rough. She may benefit from feedback, even negative feedback, that will hopefully allow her to hone her conversational style.
I still recognize that in order for feedback to work, it would have to be accepted as such first.
[citation needed]There are lots of gods.
There is only one living God.
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Until you can show sufficient reasons why anyone should believe that, the statement can only be assumed to be false.
When I am given good reasons to change my mind I will, until then I will continue to reject all offers that I should get into your heads to meet your Gods, after all you refuse to meet my God Atheism. (and my God won't kill you if you reject him)
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Until you can show sufficient reasons why anyone should believe that, the statement can only be assumed to be false.
I describe Atheism as a God because that's how religious people want it known as, and as I don't care what it's called I go along with it.It's interesting that you describe atheism as a "god," though...does that mean you accept the idea of the nonexistence of deity on blind faith, rather than having reasoned out your own conclusions?
I normally do not make statements that I can not prove, but it only works one way, religious people are so sure that their beliefs are the only way to go they refuse to see that they just might be wrong, so I started doing to them as they do to non believers, making claims that were unprovable like 'There is no God', my aim is to get religious people to understand one simple thing, they might just be as wrong as they think I am.Ah. There's the fundamental flaw in your argument. Not what you said - that's true - the issue is that you apply that thinking to the claim "There is a God", but not to claims such as "There is no God" or "Religion is in your imagination
Until sufficient reasons and evidence is shown to back up an argument or refute it, you cannot come up with a definitive answer. Instead you can only stop the line of thinking there and draw no further conclusion from it until said evidence is provided. Anything else would involve an unfounded assumption on which the second conclusion must be based.
For example, the reason I am an atheist is not because I believe there is no God. I am an atheist because there is no evidence for a God, and therefore I cannot make a further conclusion that I should believe in one. Therefore I do not believe in a God, because I have not seen the evidence that would allow me to reach a conclusion. Note the difference between "I believe there is no God" (a positive claim that requires evidence should you try to establish it as fact) and "I do not believe there is a God" (which does not require evidence). Hence gnostic atheism (which is a positive claim) and agnostic atheism (which is not).
I describe Atheism as a God because that's how religious people want it known as, and as I don't care what it's called I go along with it.
No 'blind faith' involved, until I can be shown that there are Gods I do the obvious, until they are shown that Santa exists they will be doing the obvious, and the obvious is, dismiss it out of hand as being untrue.
I normally do not make statements that I can not prove, but it only works one way, religious people are so sure that their beliefs are the only way to go they refuse to see that they just might be wrong, so I started doing to them as they do to non believers, making claims that were unprovable like 'There is no God', my aim is to get religious people to understand one simple thing, they might just be as wrong as they think I am.
Wrong, if I was mentally challenged I would be religious.mentally challenged or VERY young....or both
As a devoted Atheist do you honestly think I would go out with a Christian? or anyone religious for that matter.She has been hurt by someone (my guess is a man) who called himself a Christian.
You got one part of that right anyway, I can not believe in any Gods.So now she hates everything Christian and can not believe in any god (other than herself) who would let whatever happened to happen.....
Wrong, if I was mentally challenged I would be religious.
As a devoted Atheist do you honestly think I would go out with a Christian? or anyone religious for that matter.
You got one part of that right anyway, I can not believe in any Gods.
I'm really sorry about that, all I can do is my best.I don't think you're wrong due to your metaphysical stances. I think your rhetorical technique is flawed and your ability to hold a mature and meaningful conversation is minimal.
I normally do not make statements that I can not prove, but it only works one way, religious people are so sure that their beliefs are the only way to go they refuse to see that they just might be wrong, so I started doing to them as they do to non believers, making claims that were unprovable like 'There is no God', my aim is to get religious people to understand one simple thing, they might just be as wrong as they think I am.
I'm really sorry about that, all I can do is my best.
When someone starts talking about Gods their maturity seems to diminish they get mentally younger the longer they speak.
How can I give them evidence? God being part of their imagination should be self evident to them, where was their God before they believed in him and where will he go if they decide not to believe in him anymore? their God is a part of their imagination wether they believe it or not.The thing is that many of them do think that. Your various other claims which accuse religious people of being mentally ill, God just being a part of the imagination, and so on require evidence. Otherwise you're making yourself look just as bad as the religious people you're trying to persuade. Insults do not make a good argument.
Who are these "religious people" you reference here?I describe Atheism as a God because that's how religious people want it known as, and as I don't care what it's called I go along with it.
Unfortunately, you will have very little success with the tactics you currently employ. It is VERY easy to dismiss your posts simply on account of the broad and sweeping generalizations you employ, not to mention your unfounded assertions about historical facts that can easily be checked. (And nope, going for a "tu quoque"-fallacy doesn't help your case, either.)I normally do not make statements that I can not prove, but it only works one way, religious people are so sure that their beliefs are the only way to go they refuse to see that they just might be wrong, so I started doing to them as they do to non believers, making claims that were unprovable like 'There is no God', my aim is to get religious people to understand one simple thing, they might just be as wrong as they think I am.
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