OT 4 More Things Atheists Should Stop Saying

OT 4 More Things Atheists Should Stop Saying Jan 5, 2021 0:35:26 GMT via mobile SciFive likes this

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Post by movieliker on Jan 5, 2021 0:35:26 GMT

Jan 5, 2021 0:29:26 GMT rachelcarson1953 said:

Jan 4, 2021 21:28:48 GMT Eva Yojimbo said:

I've been agreeing there is no proof since about page 1. That's just been a strawman you've been endlessly skewering. Now you're agreeing there's no evidence either. Good, so we're back to my original question about why assume God exists at all.

As for your reasons:

1) Parents are just humans and as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
2) Ok...
3) Your happiness has no bearing on the truth of a hypothesis.
4) Ok...

Yes, it's a personal decision, which is fine, but it's clear you have no good reasons to believe, which makes the decision to believe irrational. If you want to believe because you think it "works" for you, then that's a pragmatic argument, and I don't have much to say against it; but if you're concerned with believing the truth, and not just what feels good, then you should care about having good evidence and/or reasons to believe, which you don't have.

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw

But being drunk is not healthy. And it often is caused by the abuser trying to dull the pain of mental, psychological and/or emotional problems.

Believing in God is not unhealthy. And I have no pain I'm trying to dull.

So, that may be a funny post of yours, but it's not completely applicable.