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Originally Posted by d*d
That smacks of the superiority that aethiests think they have over people who beleive in their God(s), ah bless em, it's just the echoes in their heads of higher brain functions you have as much chance of proving that as you do of proving gods existence, it's fine not to beleive in god but as an opinion it is no more valid than others.
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Such logic will get you nowhere. It sounds very defensive too.
All you have to do to understand an atheist's point of view is this: Tell a subordinate of yours (child, employee, friend) that you are entitled to be addressed as 'sir' and only 'sir' from now on. You will probably receive the question 'why?' and you are to respond with 'because.' Observe their reaction.
Now, if this subordinate of yours had been raised and influenced all his or her life to call you by 'sir' then this would not be a problem, but the very notion of approaching this person, who already has a different name to call you by, actually submitting to your request is presumably absurd. People just do not command that kind of power over other people in today's society.
As always, people will look to explain things with the knowledge they have. If you've taken psychology classes before, then you're probably well aware of the process of diagnosis. Well, how do you classify someone who feels and reacts to something that to your best intuitions *does not exist*? Well, you diagnose this person with some degree of schitzophrenia. Now, I'm not calling people who believe in god schitzophrenics. Maybe just the people who think Jesus actually speaks to them, though. However, these same psychology classes will teach you that memories, feelings and sensations can be *taught* to people without them ever having actually experienced them. It's a lot easier to do thanyou'd think, too.
Society does it. They actually do it in a very blunt fashion too. Nearly every day of your life, you are bombarded with the undisputed notion that god does exist. This is social engineering at work. Now, as someone said to me earlier in this thread, the concept of faith is that it does not have to be proven to you in order for you to believe. Now, to the discerning individual, this sounds a lot like giving your car to a stranger who says he's gonna wire you $30000 tomorrow. It's also like someone telling you that they deserve your total complete respect and you must only call them 'sir' ... and you cannot even see proof of their superiority. You're left to assume, to piece together ideas with your dissonance.
God is nothing but a mental teddy bear.