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Comment by richmarr

It sounds like you're trying to engage me in a debate, but there really isn't one to be had here.

To have any kind of rational discussion about whether God exists, you first have to define what a God is. Either that or have some pretty strong evidence that can be used to draw a box around the question you're asking.

The existence of God is a non-question, because we have neither a definition, nor evidence, nor a way to prove or disprove even if we could agree what it was that we thought we were talking about. You, me, nor anybody else has the slightest figment of a clue, not a scrap. Nor apparently can we, because conveniently all major religions also define God as unknowable and untestable.

Sure people can have faith if they like, maybe they've been touched by a deity and I haven't (personally I doubt it), but anyone taking a rational position that there either is, or isn't, a God, is just expressing a fantasy that originates in their own emotional needs.

To try and dress up either atheism or theism in rational arguments is absurd.

parent richmarr 11 years ago

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