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minus-squarerescue_toaster@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 months agoYou’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: …
minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-24 months agoThat’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.
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: …
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.