To: Greg or e who wrote (25684 ) 5/5/2012 10:00:24 AM From: Solon Read Replies (1) | Respond to "One would still require justification in order to know either that God exists or that He does not exist, which is the question we’re really interested in. I am not surprised to find such gutter “argumentation” copy and pasted by a mindless gutter snipe! The atheistic belief that there is no evidentiary basis for a belief in spaghetti monsters, unicorns, or gods is not uniform because all people are by various degrees removed from certainty. Most atheists understand that lack of evidence does not scientifically preclude any possibilities, therefore lack of evidence does not mean the moon is not made of green cheese--only that proposing the affirmative is childish, useless, and irrational. What is meant by atheism is simply that there is no rational basis for any of the thousands and thousands of gods invented and imagined by man and that affirming the existence of something based merely and solely on imagination is to disrespect the mind, disregard reason, and to insult all that makes our species wonderful. It is to denigrate and curse the “sapiens” of our name. Simple. The theist is done like a turkey! An atheist does not claim there is no irrational basis for a god. Obviously, there are believers in thousands of varieties and styles of gods promoting the welfare of certain groups of special people who pray and tithe and handle the sword appropriate to the demands of their particular deity! But none of those irrational claims for a deity have any logic to give weight to their beliefs. Not rocket science! People who do not believe in spaghetti monsters are not required to invent the premises of the affirmative and then refute those premises! The obligation to prove imaginary constructs of the mind is on the claimant. You want Insurance to cover your house, you gotta show there was a fire--you gotta make a verifiable claim. Otherwise...there was no fire and there is no claim.
