• rescue_toaster@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    You’re forgetting the response from the theist.

    Theist: God exists.

    Atheist: I don’t believe you.

    Theist: How can you not believe me? You have no evidence, therefore my God exists.

    Atheist: …

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      4 months ago

      That’s effectively trying to prove a negative, which is nigh impossible.

      Also, it’s commonplace for a believer te be unable to empathize with a nonbeliever: it’s unfathomable to them that non-belief could be possible.

      It’s akin to a person with loving parents to ever consider that their parents could be unloving, their minds can’t comprehend it.

      So the believer goes about life thinking everything is a belief, even atheism. Which is an incorrect assessment.