How do you reconcile these two seemingly contradictory statements: "I have no belief in any god" and "I believe God is fictional"?

"I have no belief in any god" and "I believe God is fictional"?

- The first is a statement concerning a reality and the second is a statement about fiction. They are not contradictory since they are dealing with two unrelated concepts.

Man is as a god;that is part of WHY Jews (Nu. 35:30, Deut. 10-19 about 3 times) and Christians (Matt. 18:16, 2 Cor. 13:1) are to have 2 or more witnesses. I currently understands that Muslims have that principle also currently. So the statement is deficit.

How do you reconcile these two seemingly contradictory statements: "I have no belief in any god" and "I believe God is fictional"?

You just recognise that your disingenuous playing with semantics is a rather pathetic way to prove a point!

No problem then!

Maybe I'm a bit slow, but I can't see how these two statements are "seemingly contradictory".

How do you reconcile these two seemingly contradictory statements: "I have no belief in any god" and "I believe God is fictional"?

Myself, I have a disbelief in the existence of a deity, the word "belief" does not enter my thinking. If I were to be pedantic I could go as far as saying I have an extreme disbelief in the unsubstantiated claims of others about the existence of a deity as well, still no mention of "belief".

They are not contradictory. One is saying they don't believe in god and the second is saying they believe that god is a made up story, not fact. Are you maybe getting fiction mixed up with non-fiction? Fiction is a made up story, non-fiction is something that actually happened. Harry Potter is fiction, The Biography of Ann Frank is non-fiction.

They're not contradictory, and I don't know why someone would think that they are.

Example:

- I do not believe in leprechauns

- I believe that leprechauns do not exist

are two different ways of conveying a single meaning. Far from being contradictory, they are synonymous!

Your two statements are not quite synonymous. The first claims disbelief in all gods. The second claims disbelief in a particular God. The second states plainly that existence is the issue; the first unambiguously implies the same but does not state it plainly.

Simple. "I believe that particular god is fictional due to the stories not matching up with reality."

You forgot the rest of the first statement: "I have no belief that any god is real" and "I believe that God is fictional"

It is just two different ways of saying the same thing, the main difference seems to be that the first statement appears to refer to gods in general, the second appears to refer to a specific God. (Probably after some zealot nutjob has been pounding on about damnation and hellfire and non-quantifiable "evidence")

Our Beloved speaker is saying;

A) "I have no belief in any god"

while at the same time asserting that he does host a 'belief' that the 'God' in which the believers believe, is a fiction!"

It is like saying "I have no belief in Thor! I believe all gods are fictional.

Makes sense to me, get the Perspective?

"All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense." -Robert Anton Wilson

"For every Perspective, there is an equal and opposite Perspective!" - The First Law of Soul Dynamics