LadyConstanze
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ORIGINAL: Real0ne [....] atheists usually lack the required intellectual development to understand that lack of belief in a deity is the same as the belief that no deity exists, which in philosophy is called trying to make a distinction where no difference exists. I don't know whether a deity exists or not. I am open to the suggestion that one may exist but as of now I have not encountered any compelling reason to believe that one exists. My position is significantly different to that of a person who insists that no deity exists. I accept the possibility that a deity may exist, they deny this possibility categorically. Therefore the claim you advance, and upon which your argument relies in this thread is invalid. Actually, so far no evidence has shown the existence of a deity, should evidence arise, I'd be more than happy to reconsider my views, but oddly enough if somebody claims something exists, the burden of proof is on them, especially if they want others to subscribe to their belief and to accept a mere belief as reality. I said repeatedly no beef with any religion, everybody should be able to worship whatever deity they want, they just don't get to force their religious laws on others. Which means I don't have to pray to Thor or Zeus if there is thunder and lightning, I don't have to take part in any rituals, be the Satanic, Christian or Muslim, I'm not stopping anybody from dancing around a golden calf, to each their own. However there are remarkable few atheists or agnostics who have started wars trying to force others to stop worshipping, on the other hand religious people fighting each other about who's deity is better or which form the worship should take, which name to call the deity, that seems fairly common. Makes you wonder why some religious fanatics can't just go on quietly practising their religion, atheists and agnostics also don't go round knocking on people's doors, trying to convince them to give up religion, we just want the freedom of not having other people's religious views being shoved down our throats. Seriously, I am trying to be polite to all those people who come knocking on my door and try to convince me to join their sects, I tell them "Thank you for your effort but I am not interested", just spent 15 minutes trying to tell the Latter-Day Saints that I am not interested in discussing the merits of their religion, that since it's raining I'd be asking them in for a cup of tea but please no religious talk, they kept waving their holy book and pamphlets at me and told me I too can go to heaven. I finally got rid of them by claiming the names of my Dobies are Satan, Damien and Luzifer, that did it. Why can't they just accept a "No thank you?"
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