WHO IS AN ATHEIST? Practice

[Whitefire13]

Why you disbelieve in any deity(s)

Debate Room

@Sheldon

I disbelieve in any deity or deities, because no one has ever been able to demonstrate any objective evidence to support the belief.

I don’t believe its rational to argue something into existence either, but even so all the apologetics I’ve encountered are irrational, and flawed. They nearly always contain or use know common logical fallacies.

@Old_man_shouts_at_cl

Like you Sheldon I lack a belief in any god or gods.

@Whitefire13

Came to settle on a default position…can you prove YOUR god, book, angel/demon, alien etc.???

Started applying a “higher standard of evidence” to all areas of my life and reasoning and it’s worked out well for me.

@LogicFTW

Creator and ruler of the universe? How do we know that? I seen zero indication of a creator or ruler of the universe beyond “talk” by humans. I see nothing getting “ruled.” On a grand scale. I seen lots of people ruling over other people, quite often proclaiming themselves as gods, but examination of those people show me they are just people like me and everyone else I know.

@TheMagus

I’ve even seen people who are otherwise Atheists that believe other crazy things like some conspiracy theories or convert to a religion. I realized that it is about epistemology. If a person does not have a good system for obtaining truth, then they’re screwed.

@algebe

Imagine you’re a detective investigating a crime–construction of a universe without a permit. You round up a bunch of witnesses and start interviewing them. The first thing you find is that there are no direct eyewitnesses to the event. All the witnesses are giving you second-, third- or 100-hand hearsay accounts. Then you find that their accounts of the same event are wildly different. It was done by one old man who took six days. It was done by an immortal gang who were subsequently overthrown by their children and grandchildren. Each time they tell their stories, they become more and more elaborate and detailed. They even give you dates and times.

@Calilasseia

I’ll step in here and present a brief exposition of my reasons for not treating unsupported mythological assertions uncritically as fact, in the manner that so many mythology fanboys do. I’ll start by stating the obvious - namely, it’s precisely because mythological assertions are completely bereft of support, that I regard them as intrinsically discardable, in accordance with the proper rules of discourse, which, sadly, the typical pedlars of apologetics here not only regard themselves and their assertions as exempt from, but seem to take a perverse delight in deliberately flouting.