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Atheists Don't Exist

Tim the plumber said:
I can.

You can prove you are a theist. You say that you believe in God and actually believe it. That would do.

Given you certainly don't beleive in Zeus it is proven that you are atheistic about Zeus.

I am atheistic about your god.

Stop lying all the time. It is bad for your sanity.
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Prove it.
And learn the meaning of "lying" -- for chrissakes it's been two years you've been corrected on your misuse of the word! How do you expect to prove you're an atheist if you can't keep the meaning of a simple word straight?
 
Angel said:
Well, when the hilarity subsides, you may try to meet the OP challenge and prove that you're an atheist, or that someone is.
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The very fact that you're a theist proves that someone can not be one. You play these dishonest little games because you can't argue on substance.
 
Angel said:
Prove it.
And learn the meaning of "lying" -- for chrissakes it's been two years you've been corrected on your misuse of the word! How do you expect to prove you're an atheist if you can't keep the meaning of a simple word straight?
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As always you are impervious to plain honesty.

Lying; Stating something you knbow to be false as true. Such as your position that atheists claim to be able to prove that there is no god. This is an example of a lie.

Do you believe in Zeus?
 
Okay, perhaps being Agnostic is not so bad.
 
Angel said:
No, the topic is that the skeptical challenge to theism is as foolish as a skeptical challenge to atheism.
You missed the point entirely.
Now that I've helped you understand the thread, have you anything on point to post?
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In other words you are trying to take away ones liberty to be skeptical about someones claims.
 
FreedomFromAll said:
Dudes obsessed with trolling atheists.
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If he is, he's terrible at it. Every time he makes ridiculous and untruthful arguments, gets called on them, and is quickly left with nothing but hurling insults. It's sad watching it happen over and over.
 
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Angel said:
Do Atheists Exist?

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Apparently not.

Not by the standards of Internet skepticism they don't.

At the very least there is no reason to believe that atheists exist.
(This to match the more tempered skeptical claim.)

Internet skeptics demand proof of God's existence.
Internet skeptics jeer at mystery presented as evidence.
Internet skeptics reject personal testimony out of hand.

(I use the word "prove" throughout in the loose sense popularized by Internet skeptics of course.)

So let us turn the tables on the Internet Skeptic.

Let's demand a proof of the existence of atheists.

Let us reject personal testimony as evidence.

(But let's leave the jeering to the Internet Skeptic, yes?)

The purpose and point of this thread is to show the Internet Skeptic the folly of his ways.

(Drum roll please)

because by the standards of the Internet Skeptic

Atheists Don't Exist

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Proofs?
Concessions?​
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Knowingly Untruthful.

If I had conversations with thousands of gods, I would agree they exist.
 
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Tim the plumber said:

As always you are impervious to plain honesty.

Lying; Stating something you knbow to be false as true. Such as your position that atheists claim to be able to prove that there is no god. This is an example of a lie.

Do you believe in Zeus?
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All right, look, if you're going to misread and misunderstand the topic, be humble in your posts.
Now listen: it is no part of the thread topic and no where claimed in the OP "that atheists claim to be able to prove that there is no god."
You are misunderstanding the OP claim. Did you get that? You are confused.
Your offering this misunderstood and false claim as proof of my dishonesty and so proof that you use the word "lying" correctly is typical hilarious Internet Chat vomit.
 
RabidAlpaca said:
The very fact that you're a theist proves that someone can not be one. You play these dishonest little games because you can't argue on substance.
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Unintelligible post.
Can you or can you not prove that you're an atheist, or that someone is?
 
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RabidAlpaca said:
So you no longer believe in anything that can't be objectively proven to exist? That would make you an atheist, bud. Atheism proven. Welcome to the club.
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Based on the half dozen of your posts to this thread, this topic appears to be out of your depth. Go slowly.
 
RabidAlpaca said:
So proving I don't believe in your sky fairy is the same as you being unable to prove your sky fairy exists in the first place?

This might be your most pathetic and desperate whine thread to date, and damn that says a lot.
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You seem rather befuddled as to the topic and theme of this thread. Do slowly.
 
Angel said:
So you felt the need, whilst yawning, to quote the entire OP or thread starter at post #2 in order to dismiss the thread as beneath your interest, did you?
Interesting psychology in an otherwise pointless post.
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I'm not sure what you're talking about. "Quoting the entire OP or thread starter" is quite easy. It can be done in a few seconds.

But your overall point is legitimate. Everybody's complaining about your original seeder as pointless, ridiculous, etc.,..........but on the other hand, we DID respond. So if all you wanted to do was elicit reactions, you were successful.
 
Angel said:
At the very least there is no reason to believe that atheists exist.
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In very simple terms you’re right; it isn’t possible to definitively prove atheists exist. That doesn’t definitively prove they don’t of course and the whole thing moves in to the area of likelihood of existence and consequences of action (or inaction) as a result of that.

It is somewhat similar to the question of the existence of any specifically defined god. We can’t definitively prove they exist or don’t exist and so we have to determine the best course of action in the face of that ignorance. Like a lot of people in the face of the countless different claims about various gods and similar concepts, many of which are contradictory and none of which are anywhere close to provable, my response is to continue as if none of them definitively exist.
 
Angel said:
No, the topic is that the skeptical challenge to theism is as foolish as a skeptical challenge to atheism.


I would agree with that. No one can prove God exists. No one can prove he doesn't exist (since that would be proving a negative, which rarely can be done).

A much more relevant question to me would be: do you believe in anything that can't be proven? I know I do. My wife's love for me and fidelity to me would be examples.
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jamesrodom said:
I'm not sure what you're talking about. "Quoting the entire OP or thread starter" is quite easy. It can be done in a few seconds...
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At post #2 quoting the entire #1 post is unnecessary, superfluous, wasteful (of bandwidth), especially in order to dismiss the thread topic. At #2 just a post of your yawn would have sufficed.
 
Angel said:
(I use the word "prove" throughout in the loose sense popularized by Internet skeptics of course.)

So let us turn the tables on the Internet Skeptic.

Let's demand a proof of the existence of atheists.
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Unless you have developed your own personal definition of proof then the proof required by atheist standard is of two parts.
Firstly can you provide any empirical evidence of a god? The answer of course is, no.
Secondly, can you give a good reason as to why we should consider a god? The answer of course is, no.

The very fact that the answers are no is your empirical evidence.

The fact that there is theism is a good reason and the only reason atheism also exists. That is your good reason.
 
HonestJoe said:
In very simple terms you’re right; it isn’t possible to definitively prove atheists exist. That doesn’t definitively prove they don’t of course and the whole thing moves in to the area of likelihood of existence and consequences of action (or inaction) as a result of that.

It is somewhat similar to the question of the existence of any specifically defined god. We can’t definitively prove they exist or don’t exist and so we have to determine the best course of action in the face of that ignorance. Like a lot of people in the face of the countless different claims about various gods and similar concepts, many of which are contradictory and none of which are anywhere close to provable, my response is to continue as if none of them definitively exist.
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To be sure, but I'm not talking about the religious claims about the nature of God; I'm talking about the bare existence of God, the fact of God's existence without any further claims about the nature of God. That cannot be proved or disproved, anymore than the existence of atheists can. So whence does your praxis derive in that case?
 
All it takes to be atheist is not believe in God.

How is that not possible?

Well, think it from gospel's view point. Atheist is one of those reasons why Christians are "running amok" and shaking Bibles, shouting "Jesus is your savior".
 
soylentgreen said:
Unless you have developed your own personal definition of proof then the proof required by atheist standard is of two parts.
Firstly can you provide any empirical evidence of a god? The answer of course is, no.
Secondly, can you give a good reason as to why we should consider a god? The answer of course is, no.

The very fact that the answers are no is your empirical evidence.

The fact that there is theism is a good reason and the only reason atheism also exists. That is your good reason.
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There is nothing "of course" about your rejection of evidence in your first question, except that you're an atheist who rejects all evidence of God's existence. So I am applying your standard to the existence of atheists.
Same with your answer to your second question. The key to your rejection there is "good reason," which the atheist simply dismisses as possible.

All you've demonstrated in this post is the close-mindedness of atheists, which is precisely what this thread is about.

Can you give evidence of the existence of atheists? What is it?
Can you give a "good reason" for believing atheists exist? What is it?
 
Pointless thread is pointless
 
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