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Despite millenia of disproven lies about a non existing almighty being, you still believe this being indeed does exist

There is a whole area in Philosophy called Philosophy of Religion that would really like your disproof of the existence of such a being. They have atheists and theists alike.

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Point me to a god and I’ll dismantle them.

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What do you mean?

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2 points

That no god can survive empirical investigation

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Richard Dawkins has demonstrated that you don’t need to know a lick of philosophy to be an atheist. Simply cite anecdote as universal knowledge.

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I don’t have to proof something doesn’t exist, someone that wants to be taken seriously has to proof why they would believe something does positively exist.

“what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”

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“Academic philosopher Michael V. Antony (2010) argued that despite the use of Hitchens’s razor to reject religious belief and to support atheism, applying the razor to atheism itself would seem to imply that atheism is epistemically unjustified. According to Antony, the New Atheists (to whom Hitchens also belonged) invoke a number of special arguments purporting to show that atheism can in fact be asserted without evidence.”

If only you could read, maybe you’d be more tolerant, but I doubt it, sigh.

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The sheer arrogance to post a philosophical minority opinion paired with an insult and then end it with a sigh.

And while I am not particularly familiar with Mr. Antony’s work I can tell you that he either didn’t understand or purposefully misused Hitchen’s Razor insofar as you indeed can not apply it to Atheism the same way you can apply it to christianity.
The reason for that being that there is no particular thing at all you have to believe to be an atheist.
Atheism in and of itself doesn’t assert anything at all.
So there is nothing that could be dismissed.

Atheism says there is no reason to believe in god.
How does Hitchen’s Razor dismiss that? It doesn’t.

Not to mention your quote still is no argument towards the positive existence of god.

And if you don’t show me how I am supposed to be intolerant, I will take it as the baseless insult that it is and will no longer discuss with you.

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-24 points

This is some serious goalpost movement. You just said there was proof.

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I did what now?

I said there are millenia worth of disproven lies.
Which there are.

Like that the whole world was flooded and repopulated by one single family, which is disproven by DNA samples.
Or that it is gods will that priest stay unmarried, which is historically agreed that it was a measure to keep wealth inside the church organization.
Or so so many more.

I never said there was prove god doesn’t exist.
And like I said, there doesn’t need to be as long as there is no documented sign whatsoever that points towards god actually existing.

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If you are claiming something doesn’t exist you should prove it. Why should I take your argument seriously without proof? You see how this goes both ways?

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No it doesn’t go both ways.

If something exists it should be easy to prove.
There should be some form of sign of it.

On the other hand it is hard to disprove the existence of anything at all.
How do we know there is not some teapot in outer space?

We can’t.
But that is no reason to believe there is one.

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