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glen ropella on
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On 01/09/2015 08:51 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Sure, religion is just the worst because they do it _on purpose_.
> Meanwhile, atheism is not "delusional" like theism because for something
> to be delusional there has to be contrary evidence, and there is not.
Heh, you say that like "evidence" has a rock solid, unambiguous
definition. I know plenty of people who believe there is (are?) lots of
evidence of the existence of gods that interfere with the world. Hence,
atheism is delusional in exactly the same way that theism is delusional.
Granted, to make this conversation useful, we'd have to denote the
language in which delusion is expressed. If we let A be the language of
atheists (or perhaps even science), then we can call delusional_A the
criterion by which we show evidence there are no gods. And if we let T
be the language of theists, then delusional_T can be the criterion by
which we show evidence there are gods.
Then(!) you can assert that delusional_A is ≠ delusional_T.
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⇔ glen
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