Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="pam" data-source="post: 1857574" data-attributes="member: 229353">We obviously can&#039;t prove to you that we aren&#039;t in emotional pain, and are thus not using it to fuel our arguments.However, if you remove the very faulty premise you&#039;ve constructed, you might understand that many arguments are formed around sound, rational logic that is neither inflammatory nor emotionally fueled. Just because you disagree with an argument does not mean that you&#039;re allowed to make wild assumptions about the person making it.[EDIT]Then again, when you consider the sexual molestation of young boys by priests, people dying in witch hunts, children allowed to die because their parents prayed rather than take them to the doctor, 9 year old girls being excommunicated after doctors performed an abortion to save her life, drownings caused by baptisms, etc, etc, etc....Why aren&#039;t you in emotional pain, too? Why aren&#039;t you angry?[EDIT]&quot;come on you can prove anything and everything you are a nonbeliever.&quot;That&#039;s absolutely not true. Nobody can prove anything about his or her inner emotions - not with words. Not everything in the world can be proven. Anyone who says otherwise is fooling themselves. You obviously have the false assumption that atheists believe they can prove anything. We don&#039;t. We can&#039;t. I doubt most of us would even claim that we can.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pam, post: 1857574, member: 229353"] We obviously can't prove to you that we aren't in emotional pain, and are thus not using it to fuel our arguments. However, if you remove the very faulty premise you've constructed, you might understand that many arguments are formed around sound, rational logic that is neither inflammatory nor emotionally fueled. Just because you disagree with an argument does not mean that you're allowed to make wild assumptions about the person making it. [EDIT] Then again, when you consider the sexual molestation of young boys by priests, people dying in witch hunts, children allowed to die because their parents prayed rather than take them to the doctor, 9 year old girls being excommunicated after doctors performed an abortion to save her life, drownings caused by baptisms, etc, etc, etc.... Why aren't you in emotional pain, too? Why aren't you angry? [EDIT] "come on you can prove anything and everything you are a nonbeliever." That's absolutely not true. Nobody can prove anything about his or her inner emotions - not with words. Not everything in the world can be proven. Anyone who says otherwise is fooling themselves. You obviously have the false assumption that atheists believe they can prove anything. We don't. We can't. I doubt most of us would even claim that we can. [/QUOTE]

Name

Verification

Loading…