Atheists, what does salt taste like?

Sort of sodium chloride....y.

Salt's taste is pretty much a postulate (not exactly, but you get my point). It's such a simple, elementary idea, that it can't be broken down, therefore, cannot be proven, and trying to do so is a waste of time.

We can't explain salt's taste because that's just silly and too obvious to explain. You can't explain God because you don't have any evidence to prove it.

Well considering that the 4 primary components of taste are bitter, salty, sweet, and sour, then it is a perfectly reasonably explanation if I tell you that salt tastes salty. Now that I have answered your question how about you explain to me this whole god thing....

It tastes salty mate.

Flavours are very easily explained, post again in science or even in cookery.

Or go back to school and ask.

You do not know that god exists, you just believe it does. You have faith and faith is believing in something even though you know that there is no logical reason or indeed any evidence to support that belief.

Rather daft really don`t you think ?

I may not be able to describe the taste of salt but I can describe it's basic physical and chemical properties in one paragraph:

Salt is a chrystalline mineral, usually white in colour, with a chemical composition of NaCl (Sodium and Chlorine organised alternatingly in a cubic matrix). It is pH neutral and dissolves in water. Most salt in its natural form is in fact dissolved in the sea, and can be extracted by the distillation of sea water.

Now your turn. Describe God's physical and chemical properties. Go ahead.

Salt tastes like sodium and chlorine ions binding to my taste receptors, relaying a signal to my brain that produces a chemical response resulting in a perception unique to me.

This process is observable and fairly well understood. Your "spirituality" is anything but.

Salt tastes biting, puckery, savory, zesty and piquant

Would you like to know how the sensation of taste works also? Please refer to source.

In addition to explaining to you what salt tastes like, I would also like to let you know that there is ample concrete evidence for salt and you may experience salt and observe it's existence in many other ways besides taste. I will therefore never ask you to prove that salt does not exist.

Now please proceed to explain how you know God exists.

I can tell you that salt is the biggest addiction on the planet, kind of like god! You know you don't need it but you eat the S*it anyway because you have been conditioned to like it.

You are right but the most interesting thing of all is that another person such as myself can know just as perfectly well that your beliefs are a totally fictional crock of hooey. I don't mean to insult but the idea of a god such as yours is utterly ludicrous to me. That tells me that none of us really knows anything about real truth, just what we think we know.

You're very right, I personally can't describe the taste. But if I wanted I could shake a little into someone's hand and they could feel, see and taste it.

It tastes like salt. Not clear enough?

I can show you salt. I can give you the chemical structure of salt. I can tell you where to get some salt of your own. I can measure and weigh salt.

You know why?

Because salt exists.