re: #11 StephenMeansMe

Only if the atheist wants to sound like an asshat. ^_^ “No deities exist” is a >huge claim, probably unprovable.

No, actually it’s the default claim. Deities are invented out of thin air and the premises of their existence are massively fucking absurd. It’s a very easy claim for me to make that every supernatural being posited by human beings is fiction, especially since everyone’s fiction collides with each other.

So when an atheist says “there’s no such thing as God” what I mean is, your Bible is clearly a work of human invention, and the stories it tells are fiction. Unless you’d like to also simultaneously defend all of Greek, Norse, Roman, Hindu, and every other mythology it’s your claim that makes you sound like an asshat. Nothing resembling a human deity exists anywhere except in our heads, and that’s not a startling claim it’s the truth.