re: #444 windsagio

not at all :P

The point is, there’s a pattern where people just can’t let being challenged on the subject of theism go, no matter what.

What I’m implying (but can’t prove, of course) is that there’s some underlying psychology or insecurity there that leads to this… Which ties in to my pet theory about the subject >

Believers aren’t going to concede that you’ve disproved God. For one thing, you haven’t. You can’t. For another, you aren’t bringing any original, deep, shattering insight to the table. Anything you say has been said before. It’s been dismissed before.

Atheists aren’t going to concede that you’ve proved God is real. You can’t do that either, at least not by typing away at a post on a blog.

There’s no need to slide in talk about “insecurities”. No evidence for the claim either. Stout believers are psychologically pretty solid; they held up better than your average G.I. Joe in N Korean POW camps. And some Russian NKVD commissar type was one of the leaders of the least unsuccessful rebellion at Auschwitz, by report of Miklos Nyisli, an MD (pathologist) camp prisoner who was a witness to it and lived to tell.

Miklos Nyisli, Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account, Arcade Paperbacks (1960)