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Help and Support Links
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Mainstream
Bibliography
Start here...
...proceed here.
- God is Not Great (Hitchens)
- The God Delusion (Dawkins)
- The End of Faith (Harris)
- Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell)
- Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
Proselytize Religion
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Well, again, God can't be created as then he wouldn't be God
Same with jod. Also, jod created god.
Since we're all just making shit up here. You haven't proven anything you are saying. My baseless claims are just as valid as yours.
You better not disrespect jod. You don't want to go to turbohell, do you?
This would require God to be created, which is a logical contradiction
No, it's not logical to believe that god exists at all.
Why?
Wrong question. You are the one making the positive claim that god exists.
Why should anyone believe that?
one of the.multiple reasons is the principle of sufficient reason
But that's human bullshit.
We don't know that everything needs a cause.
We don't know that infinite regress is impossible.
And if everything needs a cause, so does god.
God exists on a completely different plane than we do, his cause is himself as to be God, you need to be perfect and rely only on yourself.
Special pleading. God seemingly only exists in human heads, he's imaginary.
"Perfect" is human bullshit. Would you like to define "perfect" as you're using it here? Have we ever observed anything perfect?
Like the universe itself seems to do, no god required.
You keep repeating the same fallacies: god of the gaps and special pleading. Philosophy is not evidence. Philosophy is "if what I'm saying is true, then what I'm saying is true." But there is no evidence verifying the premise or the conclusion. Anyone can make shit up, it's not impressive.
You claim god exists with no evidence, specifically citing the unproven idea that everything must have a cause. Oops, right, everything except god, because he's special. What's stopping me from claiming god was created by Jod? Why don't you believe every unproven claim ever made? Do you believe in unicorns? Leprechauns? Fairies? If not, why not?
God cannot have a start nor an end. The universe has a start (the big bang) and an end (heat death). The universe does not rely completely on itself
But you yourself said everything requires a cause. So god also requires a cause.
You don't know that.
And again, what's stopping me from defining Jod as the creator of god? I have exactly as much evidence as you do: none.
You cannot define god into existence.
Give me an actual reason to believe in him.
The universe relies on the big bang
Not necessarily. The universe may have led to the big bang via a process we do not yet understand.
"Perfect" is depending and relying only on yourself
Like literally everything in existence does?
What do you mean?
If earth blew up right now, would you be alive? You probably depend on the earth
No, but you're conflating my consciousness with the particles that I consist of. My baryons would still exist, yes.
Denying the principle of sufficient reason would mean that you do not have a sufficient reason to know whether your knowledge is defunct or not. Thus, if we deny the principle of sufficient reason, knowledge and truth cannot exist
No, we use evidence. Observable evidence. "I think gravity exists." We experiment. We demonstrate it. We can use it to make predictions. It goes from hypothesis to knowledge even if we don't completely understand the underlying mechanics of it.
What a stupid thing to claim. I reject the PSR because there is no evidence for it. None of my other knowledge magically disappears as a result. If there was no truth, we would not be conversing right now.
You cannot hold the belief that your knowledge is valid or invalid as you lack sufficient reason to hold it.
If you deny the principle of sufficient reason, you fall into absurdism and contradiction. There's no truth as there's no sufficient reason deeming something true or false
And yes, thats the point, truth exists and thus we are conversing.
Wrong, I have evidence I have sensed with my senses and processed with my brain.
Can you demonstrate that?
Wrong, there is evidence and we can repeatedly test it.
Right. I believe you exist because you're here. I don't believe god exists because he's never been here.
We can repeatedly test it and get consistent results.
Nope, not even once.
If you can prove it, do so.
If you can't, shut the fuck up.
I never said that. You did.
I don't reject truth or knowledge. I do reject the principal of sufficient reason, because it's unproven bullshit.
We can repeatedly test them and get consistent results.
that's a sufficient reason, isn't it?
No, that's empirical evidence. Not magic.
it, is a reason though, right?
Evidence is a reason to believe what the evidence suggests, sure.
It's why no one should believe in god, there's no evidence, no reason.
Another good question.
How do you know YOUR senses are valid?
The ones telling you there is a god?
The principle of sufficient reason
...is an assertion with no evidence.