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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 1 decade ago

So Atheists: Do you agree that though you may not be satisfied with proof of God, you cannot disprove Him? Pwn?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    how will you disapprove when I claim I have a sixth finger each hand? and the third eye on my forehead? you're going laugh, sure.

    read the following if you like to

    Therefore, God doesn't exist.

    http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/#HumSufExtF...

    Good and evil, what is the third one that God didn’t create? That is freedom from both good and evil. Freedom exists – at least during deep sleep and coma. In deep sleep, you can’t find either good or evil.

    Thus, God doesn’t exist.

    If Free Will be true, if it’s about avoiding evil and to do good, then why can’t people avoid diseases and natural disasters created by God? They can’t – whether they have faith in God or not, they can’t avoid criminals in the society, diseases and disasters that come from just anywhere. They might even have to give their lives to evil things – criminals, diseases and natural disasters. They also time and again have to face hardship for generations. They can’t avoid such diseases and natural disasters. They can’t stop such things from coming to them. Famine is a nasty thing. Plague is also a nasty thing. They can wipe out an entire community.

    Thus, God doesn’t exist.

    And why did God give a lot of powers to Satan? He knew Satan would revolt and would take lots of angels with him to hell and to mankind. In hell, he might suffer but yet he can escape hell and inspires humankind – since the creation of Adam and Eve. Satan has the absolute power to free himself from hell and come to the people anytime he likes to give evil to people whilst God doesn’t intervene (in crimes, diseases and natural disasters). God doesn’t stop either Satan or evil. God doesn’t stop because God doesn’t exist.

    Thus, God doesn’t exist. As God doesn’t exist, Satan doesn’t either.

    By worshiping God, nobody ever gained freedom from evil – neither physically nor mentally. God inspires people who worship him to be good. But his worshippers never have been free from evil – since Adam and Eve. Thus, worshipping God cannot free anyone from evil. Thus, God doesn’t give his worshipper free from evil. Why? Because God doesn’t exist.

    Thus, God doesn’t exist.

    The worst thing is God forms foetuses where they will be born into utter sufferings. Foetuses cannot know anything. Babies cannot be subjects of test even if the adults are tested in such a way by God. Merciful God wouldn’t do this. But in reality, such things happen.

    Thus, God doesn’t exist as merciful God doesn’t do it.

    As God doesn’t exist, neither Adam nor Eve ever created.

    By nature, free will doesn’t exist. Whether one is free from good or evil, that’s still a condition of the nature.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I'm sorry but the idea that there's someone (someone who can type or speak anyway) who can't prove the nonexistence of an 'omnipotent entity who loves us' is ridiculous. I know that a lot of atheists will be like "Hey, you can't prove a negative" or "We can't prove or disprove God". Rubbish. Normally I'd agree with them BUT the description of 'God' as an omnipotent entity who loves us DEMANDS, logically, that we are happy. All the time. Any human suffering, any suffering of 'us' proves that no omnipotent entity loves us. That's just simple logic and word definitions. But, if theists want to keep pushing their definition around so it's not ridiculous then yeah, a 'god' might exist. Granted,that god could be a simple banana with no 'superbanana powers' but, at the linguistic level, a 'god' would then exist. If Druids worship trees and anything worshiped is a god, then gods exist b/c trees exist. At that level, I'm a theist b/c I believe in trees.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    There isn't any Mr Wonderful. There are, nevertheless, cults. Every faith is a cult. They all declare to be the one right hyperlink to 'Mr Wonderful'. They all use the equal systems, get 'em at the same time they're very younger, and begin the learning. You can investigate out every one, see their techniques. And observe how they use rote coaching - the repetitive and reinforcing coaching.. hiya - the military & ALL the opposite navy clothes do the equal - rote teach the troops. Until it turns into a facet of you. The fact of this universe we are living inside - is absolutely one-of-a-kind. And four hundred years in the past, technological know-how lit a shiny gentle, of motive & advantage. It swept the planet, used to be referred to as 'the enlightenment'. Look it up. The factor is - those cults also are utilized by the company syndicate that runs the procedure we're regularly compelled to reside beneath. It wasn't constantly this manner. Back after we had a President that desired schooling, technological know-how and bodily health for every body, and he began the Peace Corps. But the company syndicate desired extra - consistent - Wars. The leisure is historical past..

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Academia states that in the absence of proof of the existence of something it must be deemed not to exist until verifiable proof is found - thus god is held not to exist pending some sort of verifiable evidence.

    There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!

    There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

    He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?

    Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

    Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!

    At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!

    The Roman Emperor Constantine produced the bible and he was a pagan not god!!! He took the Jewish religion and basing it on the Mithras religion, organized it into Christianity and then into the Holly Roman Catholic Church!! Not in Israel or any of the countries of supposed origin but entirely ITALIAN!

    Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?

    What a wonder full disinformation and deception campaign he waged against his Jewish enemies by turning them into his invented Christianity - so good in fact that Christians are still following the deception to this day!

    The first person to provide a shred of verifiable evidence for God will become world famous and mega rich!! Ain't happened yet and it never will!

    So how does this primitive belief survive? The answer is simple and very down to Earth

    Acceptance of a supernatural claim tends to promote cooperative social relationships. This communication demonstrates a willingness to accept, without skepticism, the influence of the speaker in a way similar to a child's acceptance of the influence of a parent. By encouraging this kind of behavior where the most intense social relationships occur it facilitates the lack of skepticism and deters more open minded thinking.

    They are christian, Muslim or the other religions depending where they were born simply because they were indoctrinated by their parents as very young children. They will go on to indoctrinate their own children and those will go on to indoctrinate their grandchildren!

    Atheists have the intellect to see through the conditioning and escape into the real world!

    Agnostics have the intellect to see through the conditioning but lack the courage to throw of the conditioning entirely.

    Sadly Christians are still held firmly prisoner by the self perpetuating brainwashing!

    Source(s): University of Missouri-Columbia. Arizona State University
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  • 1 decade ago

    Scientifically once you have a theory on something, that theory also has to be falsifiable. So without a shred of scientific proof that there is a god then you can't falsify that theory. So there is no "disproving".

    Also to "H" there is no such thing as an Agnostic-Athiest. You are either one or the other. Calling yourself both make you look more ignorant than what I bet spews out of your mouth. Just saying.

  • Ashnod
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    One cannot disprove any assertion that makes no testable claims; however, such assertions are essentially meaningless for all practical intents and purposes. Of course, depending on the traits ascribed to any given "God," one may very well be able to disprove claims of its existence on the basis of the described traits being mutually-contradictory.

    Regardless, the burden of proof rests on the side asserting the positive claim, not on the side rejecting it for lack of evidence.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The entire point of scientific investigation is to find evidence for a phenomena. That you cannot disprove something is not evidence that that something exists. You cannot disprove unicorns for instance. Anyways, there is no evidence for God that is objective therefore atheists and reasonable people don't believe in God.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Of course I agree. But I also can't disprove El Chupacabra or the Baba Yaga or a myriad of other mythical beasties. Inability to disprove proves nothing.

    Source(s): No, not pwn.
  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Not even funny, kid.

    1. There is NO evidence which points to an imaginary psychopath in space suffering cerebral palsy, uncontrollably waving his arms about, creatin' stuff outa nothin' for no discernable reason.

    2. Just by the SIMPLE act of looking around anyone can see that shït happens to all and sundry regardless of ANY thought, deed or circumstance, exactly as if there was NO invisible space chappie pulling any strings at all.

    The world works exactly as you'd expect if there were no god.

    ~

  • 1 decade ago

    Not this tired old argument AGAIN. This is the typical Negative Proof Fallacy. Look, the burden of proof is on you guys to provide evidence of existence, not on us to refute. Otherwise, prove ANY religion wrong then (no, not with your bibles), or that there aren't invisible strippers just outside your window giving lap dances to the ghost of Thomas Crapper. Completely undetectable by modern science, of course.

  • jm1970
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Hello Atheists: On behalf of all Christians, please accept my apology for this silly question along with all the other silly ones posted "HEY ATHEISTS...YOU SHOULD BELIEVE IN GOD BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS TO!"

    Let's start with the definition of atheist.....it is not that atheist don't believe in God, or that they are rebelling against God and Christianity, or that they spend all of their time resisting God.......An ATHEIST BELIEVES THERE IS NO GOD...they are not angry with God, they are not questioning Him...They DO NOT BELIEVE GOD EXISTS AT ALL...

    Because they don't believe in a God, they do not spend every minute of the day thinking about proof of his existence or non-existence.

    It is hard for Christians to undertsand this because we do believe and we worship Jesus/God and spend all of our time thinking about Him.

    These silly attempts at confrontation, usually stemming from some silly conservative talk radio show, do NOT help convince anyone of anything...they make us all look silly, they make GOD look silly.

    I'm a born again, Catholic, Christian...I firmly believe that God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit exist....however, I cannot prove it...if I could, there would be no faith, only knowledge, it wouldn't be belief, it would be fact.

    Seriously, stop it....you all make me feel like I do when my brother shows up at parties and I'm like...oh boy.....hide me now!

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