Monotheism is an inferior belief system

[Darwin333]

The potential to be true is there for all religions except those the creator has said he made up.

Anything that can not be proven to exist (and therefore can't be proven not to exist) has the exact same "potential" to exist. If you don't believe me than prove (with actual proof) that there is not a little invisible leprechaun on my shoulder right now. You can't, same as you can't prove that God exists. The number of people that believe in the unprovable has absolutely no bearing on its likelihood to be true or not.

 

[actuarial]

You did not quote the correct thing. If you had, you would see it was a general statement made to everyone, not to one individual, which is what you are pretending it was.

Well I would hope there was at least one person in this thread who made that claim then. But even so, I'll concede I was nit picking there.

Nope. Faith is belief without proof. Does not need to be 100% proof, simply beyond a reasonable doubt proof. Let us use theoretical science as an example. If you made a claim without any proof, you would be laughed at. If you made a claim with VERY VERY little proof, people would not take you seriuosly. If you made a claim with a good bit of proof, you would be taken seriously. People would start to believe you could be right if you used a good bit of proof. If you have no proof at all...well, it is a faith based belief. In science, faith based beliefs are called assumptions. They are an accepted and required part of any theoretical science.

You're talking about evidence, not proof, which are two completely different things. And let's look at the above with the below:

If I said there are no pink unicorns and you wanted me to prove it, I could not...at least until someone actually found one....if they actually do exist. See my point? Some things are impossible to prove they do not exist. You are correct, somethings are possible to prove they exist...but that is the minority of items which can potentially exist.

So do you laugh at people who don't believe pink unicorns exist?

 

[Darwin333]

I do not know if you claimed there is no God. I was simply correcting the false information that those who claim God does not exist do not hold a faith based belief system and that only those who make specific claims need to support their claims. Everyone who makes a claim needs to support it.

Lack of faith in something that has zero evidence of existing is not a "faith based belief system" it is the lack of faith in something that has zero evidence of existing.

Correct, yet if you claimed a pink unicorn does not exist, you would be required to support your claim on that. Expecting someone to prove the opposite of your claim is being loony. This is basically what you said, applied evenly to everyone, and I agree with it.

The above completely contradicts with:

While it is impossible to prove the non-existence of something, having no proof whatsoever puts the belief into the realm of faith.

This.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

They guy who invented him says he does not exist.

{citation needed}

Be sure to detail the method you used to discern that the evidence you are sure to supply momentarily wasn't deliberately planted to mislead Spaskeptics like yourself.

I am not saying you cannot hold your faith based belief system, just saying you look silly when they guy who made it up says it is not real.

Generally speaking, atheists do not hold any "faith-based" "belief-system." For one, atheism is not predicated on the inclusion of any certain beliefs, but rather the exclusion of one very specific belief; and two, atheism is not any kind of "system" of belief -- it is rather an attribute of a class of belief-systems.

It's interesting when this charge is laid against atheists -- all it reveals is the theist's latent recognition that his own beliefs are not rational. The accusation that atheists hold some kind of "faith" is a blatant attempt to drag atheism down to the theist's level -- trying to gain equal rational footing. In reality, it merely demonstrates an ignorance of atheism and a veiled insecurity about the theist's own beliefs.

The potential to be true is there for all religions except those the creator has said he made up.

Logically contradictory religions have no potential to be true.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

While it is impossible to prove the non-existence of something, having no proof whatsoever puts the belief into the realm of faith.

Wanna bet that I can prove the non-existence of something?

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

In the past mods have closed down threads about religion because they have no politics or news. Considering this is a troll thread why not apply that policy consistently, as in here.

Religion is entirely politics.

 

[Perknose]

Personally, I've reached success atop of mountain of aborted fetuses. I'm not saying it's the only way, but it's a way.

I admit it, I burst out laughing when I read this. Not that that is a good thing. D:

 

[Perknose]

lol. agree!! we need to worship those who can get things done.

Like Stalin! :thumbsup:

 

[Atreus21]

I admit it, I burst out laughing when I read this. Not that that is a good thing. D:

Aw man you changed your sig.