nemesis_juggernaut writes:
If atheists claim they don't believe in God, then why spend so much time showing all of us just how much they disbelieve?
There are two reasons why I think this is a bit of a silly idea. Apologies if someone else has already noted them, I just noticed this thread and haven't read it all.
1) Does my desire to engage in theological debate with people who believe in any god increase the likelyhood that their particular god or gods exist?
2) Does the fact that I think the death penalty is a bad idea and I tell people this make the death penalty a better idea than if I just kept my thoughts to myself?
Added by edit:
I read on a bit more, and saw that you were musing why it was predominantly a christian god that we are debating here. I would have thought that would be obvious - No-one is making claims about Freya or Ra here that I profoundly disagree with. If however, someone made an argument for the existence of Shiva or Quetzacoutl(sp?) here that I considered to be fallacious, I wouldn't be any less interested in debating the point. But they aren't. I'd ascribe this to no more profound reason than that there are a lot more people who believe in a Christian God who speak English and thus wash up on EvC's balmy shores. Do you think different?
Edited by Tusko, : I added more when it became clear my initial comments were a bit out of date
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