Why Atheists don't believe

**Sigh** You're playing games Iano, you know clearly what I am getting at.So, again:-Myself, you and Larni are in a room.You see a table. I see a table. Larni sees a table. We percieve a table.You "know" God. I don't. Larni "knows" another God. Whose perception is the "right" one? How can we tell?

You will exist as you only because you will be operating with the empirical knowledge you gained when you HAD perception!

Lets back up. My original post assumed that we were all in the same room. I feel that you knew that, but still decided to muddy the waters by exploiting my omission.Now my point was that we can all SEE the table. Even if we ARE in different rooms there is always the option to go and look for oneself to get empirical confimation.Now if whilst we are in that room we all we declare we "know" different Gods, how do we know who is right? Look at what?

If you don't mind me saying, I'd hope you stay unhappy with that answer. Given you know your own faith is subjective and dear to you. You must see that a Muslim's faith is just as subjective and dear to him?It's a shame your church leaders can't understand that. Ever thought of finding a more open-minded church?

Well I'm not at all religious, but if there IS a God I'd like to think the same.All religions offer ways to seek the guidance of a higher power if one so chooses. I totally respect this. What I don't respect is the need of some people of faith to denigrate other faiths - to claim preferential treatment from God, so to speak...Edited by RickJB, : Typos.

The analogy doesn't hold, CK. Even if you don't know where your girlfriend is, you CAN find out empirically. You can follow her and see where she goes. You can even take someone with you to confirm what you see. There's your evidence.When it comes to the existence of God, however, no such option is open to you.You are equating a lack of evidence with the ability to get it. When we say "lack of evidence" we mean that there is NO means of empirical confirmation.