Atheism Test

Originally posted by Ushgarak
I don't believe that is true.

Strong and weak atheists would disagree on whethet the evidence says there is no God or not. Weak atheists would say that there is not enough evidence to conclusively disprove it, but that doesn't matter because the burden of evidence is to prove, of course, and it being unproven- indeed, apparently without any rational foundation at all- it is foolish to think it is so. Strong atheists would say that the evidence against is conclusive; that it is not even a matter of being unproven, it is instead actively impossible. They are slightly contradictory viewpoints so a person cannot really be both.

Exactly. Weak athiests like myself show that god was created by man. WHile it is techincally possible that one exists, those who bevieve have shown no proof and seem to just project their desire of a god on to the world as a whole.

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
Because Jesus Christ put the witness of His Spirit in my heart. I KNOW Jesus exists. I KNOW God is real. There isn't one iota of doubt in my heart that God the Father and God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit exist.

This is not an explanation as to how you know God and Jesus exists....we know that you beleive you know, but you so far have not given us any evidense to conclusively determine that you speak truth.

Jesus Christ put the witness of His Spirit in my heart...

Now, explain....how do you know he did ? And what exactly does that mean ? It could be schitzophrenia for all we know...

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Impediment I just read through your conversation with JIA. I was impressed with how you handled yourself. I have had conversations with JIA and I did not do as well. Good job. 👆

w00t

Hehe, I got 1/8th of all knowledge in the Universe....**** you Batman, I RULE.

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Originally posted by Alliance
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What?

[edit] Oh right, I get you..I only got 1/10th ...sorry bout that..my eyes mislead me.

Sorry, I edited the post out.

Hahahahaha, if you answer "No" to the question "Are you an honest Atheist" at the beginning it takes you to the disney homepage.

I'd like to know what percentage of the knowledge of the world JIA knows.

Originally posted by Alliance
I'd like to know what percentage of the knowledge of the world JIA knows.

That's what I tried to convey to him last night and he came unglued.

I've been trying to devise a way to enhance his synaptic connections.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
I don't believe that is true.

Strong and weak atheists would disagree on whethet the evidence says there is no God or not. Weak atheists would say that there is not enough evidence to conclusively disprove it, but that doesn't matter because the burden of evidence is to prove, of course, and it being unproven- indeed, apparently without any rational foundation at all- it is foolish to think it is so. Strong atheists would say that the evidence against is conclusive; that it is not even a matter of being improven, it is instead actively impossible. They are slightly contradictory viewpoints so a person cannot really be both.

The way i see it is like this: All atheists are weak atheists because all atheists in principle LACK the belief in the existence of ALL gods and/or deities. The general definition of atheism and weak atheism is one and the SAME. There are atheists, however, who take it a step further and DENY the existence of ALL or at least SOME gods. These are your strong atheists.

An atheist could be a Strong atheist towards Roman and Greek gods, ie. OUTRIGHTLY dismissing these gods as mere myths hence none-existent but is a Weak atheist towards the Christian god, ie simply lacking the belief in Jesus but does NOT deny the possibility of his godly existence.

An atheist's stance as to what constitutes a conclusive evidence is not dependent on whether the atheist is weak or strong.

But why would the Christian god be any more credible than the Olympians?

Originally posted by Alliance
But why would the Christian god be any more credible than the Olympians?

At least the Olympians were fairly human.

yeah the greek gods were cool...

they had personality and you could see some reasons as to why they did what they did...

Originally posted by Imperial_Samura
At least the Olympians were fairly human.

Which I like more than the fact that the Hindu and Egyptian gods have human bodies but animal heads ( 🤨 ).

Originally posted by Alliance
But why would the Christian god be any more credible than the Olympians?

This is something I've always honestly wondered about myself - why are the gods of ancient religions passed off as myths but the Christian god (and the gods of other modern religions) is taken as real by many people? What makes them better or more credible?

Maybe the fact that it has over 2 billion adherents might have a little something to do with it. (obviously)

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Which I like more than the fact that the Hindu and Egyptian gods have human bodies but animal heads ( 🤨 ).

Uh... what is wrong with them having animal heads? And not all of them do.

Maybe the fact that it has over 2 billion adherents might have a little something to do with it. (obviously)

Numbers don't validate something.

In there heydays the Pagan religions had huge numbers to. And if we run to that logical then Hinduism and Islam aren't that far behind Christianity.

While Atheism and Agnosticism also aren't far behind.

2.1 Billion Christianity
1.3 Billion Islam
1.1 Billion Atheism/Agnosticism
0.9 Billion Hinduism
0.7 Billion Buddhism
0.4 Billion Chinese Traditional
0.3 Billion Pagan
0.1 Billion African Traditional
Nothing more even close.

So, I don't see any correlation.