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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
"How do you know your God exists? God could be anything!"
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As willravel points out, this is not a logic-driven argument.
However, let's put a different spin on it. I believe, Infinite_Loser, that you're a Christian of some description, am I correct? I don't need the details and I'm not judging, I just want to clarify that as a point of comparison. Personally I'm a dedicated fence-sitter, but that's neither here nor there.
Here's the catch, though: if you are Christian, you can't use the above argument to invalidate atheism without invalidating your own religion. If we assume for the sake of argument that it would be correct to say that there are an infinite possible ways in which God or a pantheon of gods could manifest, we have to accept as a given that one of those ways is for no gods to manifest at all; non-existence is one of those infinite possibilities. From there we can then equate atheism with any other faith, with the only difference being that atheism uses empirical evidence as a 'Bible.' From that perspective, you really can't use the infinite possibilities argument against atheists any more than they can use it against you, since those infinite possibilities contain both of your 'religions.'