Atheists, finish the sentence
>God does not exist because...
And don't make an appeal to ignorance fallacy like "God does not exist because I haven't seen any convincing evidence"
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... he died while creating the universe
most rational atheist take I've ever seen
God does not exist because we killed him.
I don’t believe in god because I haven’t seen any evidence.
>I don’t believe in god
Not the question
Well you clearly don’t understand what an atheist is.
An atheist would affirm the statement "God does not exist". I'm asking the reason for that statement.
You haven't refuted anything
An atheist can also just be someone who doesn’t believe gods exist and doesn’t take the affirmative stance that no gods exist. Many people argue it’s worth delineating with terms like gnostic/strong/explicit vs. agnostic/weak/implicit atheism. Frankly I think it should be two different labels entirely. This level of nuance is clearly difficult for some people.
No, an atheist is someone who doesn't believe a god or gods exists. The way you frame your statment kind of presupposes one creator god, which not even all theists affirm.
A) It's better to conclude something based on evidence than without
B) There is no evidence for God
C) Therefore, It's unlikely God exists
how did you establish B?
idc, i just wanted to refute the OP
If (B) were valid and if OP were asking about likelihoods, you would have achieved that. But I don't see that...
that sucks
Cause he’s illogical
How so?
The Op essentially admits there's nothing making people wowed by the pressence of deity. Must be that any deity ignores the worshipper but demands worship.
Of course every atheism thread degenerates into lacktheism semantics. Gotta have them denominations.
There is a conceptual difference between not believing something exists and taking the firm stance that something doesn’t exist. If you can’t understand that then you probably shouldn’t be on a philosophy board
>taking the firm stance that something doesn’t exist
Which is what atheism does. Atheists say that God doesn't exist.
If you don’t believe in any gods without taking the stance you stated, they are also an atheist.
What is the point of your lines here? Truly what does denying that people can lack belief in a claim get you, where does it bring the conversation, how does this help your cause?
If you don't believe in any gods then you would affirm the statement "God does not exist".
You really don’t understand the difference, do you?
Not him, but lacktheism muddies the waters in an attempt to prop up a frankly ridiculous epistemic system. The lacktheist is really just an atheist who doesn't want to admit that he doesn't have absolutely undisputable evidence backing up his belief.
If someone asks me whether Hitler lives on the moon, I won't say that I merely lack belief in him living on the moon. I can't conclusively prove that he doesn't live there, but I think that the case for him not living there is stronger so that's what I believe. Same with atheism.
t. actual atheist
Hitler doesn’t live on the moon I can say that with confidence. I can’t say for sure that no God exists, but I don’t believe it does.
>And don't make an appeal to ignorance fallacy like "God does not exist because I haven't seen any convincing evidence"
This isn't a fallacy. The fact that I don't see an elephant in the room I am currently in is pretty strong evidence that there isn't an elephant in this room.
>the fact that I don't see your brain means it does not exist
Anal ogy
There is evidence that he has a brain though, little anon.
I reject your premise. You're the one assuming its existence, burden of proof is on you.
If person A claims to have supernatural abilities, is it up to person A to show proof, the burden does not lay with person B to disprove person A claim.
If i say i am the lord of Jupiter, it is not up to you to disprove my claim. I'm the one that has to prove i am effectively lord of Jupiter.
>what's 2 + 2?
>no don't say 4. give me a real answer!
>Appeal to ignorance fallacy is the real answer
Do atheists really?
>you need evidence?
>no...tell me why you don't believe in God without demanding evidence
>God does not exist because
There’s no reasonable way to define him that doesn’t make the concept irrelevant in the first place. The bible clearly isn’t the literal truth, nor is Greek polytheism, if you define the big bang as god because it created the universe you’ve devolved it into a single event or force that holds no actual divine qualities, it’s like claiming the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was god or that gravity is god.
>appeal to ignorance
how is it an appeal to ignorance? It's saying that you haven't lived up to your burden, which you demonstratively have not. You've come up to me and proclaimed, with no evidence, that the god of israel is the supreme creator of the universe. The natural response is simply "yeah, I don't buy it." You can either try to bring in some evidence or just take the L, but refusing to do either and demand that I dispense with my critical faculties for the sake of your feelings is ridiculous.
Anyway, God does not exist because I have invoked YHWH's and Jesus' aid several times in my life when I desperately needed a helping hand, but they never came. But the very first time I called on Odin for help, I received it, and I have been receiving Odin's divine aid and protection regularly since I began to venerate him.
See, here's your problem: you should be asking a gnostic atheist that. That, or a hard or a level seven on the Dawkins scale.
Really, atheists just don't believe. It's not a matter of knowing or not knowing.
Which is why there are such things as agnostic atheists.
You could have asked why we don't believe in God. In which case it's why that answer you have in green text exists.
Ya see that? There you go.
....He lost his way back to our reality after his mount, the heavenly tiger started chasing the celestial goose.
'God' does not exist, but Allah does.
God does not exist because the ideas of Abrahamic religion are implausible and make a lot of unsustainable claims
Christianity for example
>god is a triad just because
>he created the world in six days
>he created only two humans to populate the earth
>he flooded the entire planet and kept only one family and a few (seven pairs for pure animals and birds, one pair for all others) of every land animal to repopulate the earth. to say nothing of plant, insect, and marine life
>he decided to hyperfixate on the israelites for some reason, to the point that other nations become either antagonists or non-existent in his holy book
And that's not even getting into God as an omnibenevolent being that wants to reconcile all of humanity to him
he was made up to explain things and control people