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As I interpret it, he's basically saying "Christianity makes sense because it makes sense to me"
No, but I read the transcript.
Did you "read" the part about all human beings have a set of religious beliefs whether they admit it or not.... and the other part about what role does faith have in your beliefs?As I interpret it, he's basically saying "Christianity makes sense because it makes sense to me"
I focused on his "making sense" (conscious rationality) part - associated with his pure words ... not on his non-verbal emotional cues, which does not make "sense" to me.Firstly, some say that 80% of communication is non-verbal, so you really missed a huge amount by reading, vs watching and listening to the lecture. Secondly, can you interact with one or more of his points. You haven't made and argument, but simply attempts to avoid making one by making a dismissive comment.
From what I read about the speaker, he is a jerk. I have no desire to listen to what he has to say. Just another right wing idiot bigot living in spiritual darkness.
Stopped watching at 5 minutes. He says that atheists believe there is no god, and they have a partially faith-based position. He does not even grasp the basic idea of atheism. What kind of a person writes a book about this topic and yet doesn't understand that atheism is the lack of a belief in God?
But you yourself said, "until you can show God interacting with reality in any detectable way, he is nothing more than an idea... a human idea."Stopped watching at 5 minutes. He says that atheists believe there is no god, and they have a partially faith-based position. He does not even grasp the basic idea of atheism. What kind of a person writes a book about this topic and yet doesn't understand that atheism is the lack of a belief in God?
You yourself, on the question of what atheists claim, stated, "The same claim you make about non christian gods." Well, we believe those gods don't exist. If atheists make the same claim (as you just said they did) you're stating that atheists DO, in fact, believe there is no god.What else is new. When they have to create a strawman right out of the box, you need all you need to know.
But you yourself said, "until you can show God interacting with reality in any detectable way, he is nothing more than an idea... a human idea."
God, Gödel, and Omniscience
How is claiming that God is nothing more than an idea any different than claiming there is no God?
You yourself, on the question of what atheists claim, stated, "The same claim you make about non christian gods." Well, we believe those gods don't exist. If atheists make the same claim (as you just said they did) you're stating that atheists DO, in fact, believe there is no god.
"The FACT of God's existence": non-Biblical LOGICAL DEBATE
Another atheist in that same thread (Dave RP, post #33) said, "I think that [atheists'] "belief system" is that there is no god as described in the Bible or any other of the available sacred texts around the world."
There you go - atheists believe that there is no god.
I'm not sure how "atheists believe there is no god" is a straw man fallacy when atheists themselves seem to say it all the time.
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