I already responded to your point: your husband is wrong. Muslims don’t say “There is one god and his name is Allah.” Allah is not the name of the Islamic god. It’s the Arabic word for god, and it’s used by Arabic speakers of all kinds - Muslims and Christians. Diogenes the Cynic said the same, and he was right. EDIT: Didn’t realize several other people had already said this, but there you go.
Same thing you always say in these threads. “Blah blah blah…I do not know, I have no way of knowing, yet I insist I am right…blah blah blah I can’t hear you.”
You’ve been singing the same song for years. Second verse, same as the first. And just like the believers, you refuse to acknowledge the real possibility that you are wrong.
That’s because Daffy Duck demonstrably does exist. As a fictional character in cartoons.
Some preacher identified as Jesus probably existed, too. Whether he was or was not the son of a God that may or may not exist is arguable. But the point has been argued here about eleventy bajillion times. It has never been resolved definitively one way or the other, because it is not possible to resolve it definitively one way or the other.
What you are fumbling to say is that there is no evidence for the existence of God.
Exactly like there is no evidence of the existence of Vampires. What is your answer when someone says, “Do vampires exist?”
If someone said Daffy Duck created the universe you’d say he was a fool. But if Yosemite Yaweh did it’s reasonable and hey, you don’t know it’s not true!
There also are claims made about God, both logical and historical, that can be examined and discussed critically and empirically.
Word.
I disagree that it’s the same as disbelieveing in Santa. i’ve never seen someone insisting with children who believe in Santa that their beliefs are erroneous and they are stupid for believing so and debate with them the proofs of his existence. If there are Santa threads like God threads, please point the way. I need a laugh.
Wrong. That is not remotely close to anything I have attempted to say, and it is also factually incorrect. There is some evidence that God exists. You may have heard of it. It’s a book called The Bible. It is not definitive evidence, but it is an ancient historical/literary document, and parts of it have been corroborated by other sources.
Religion can be summed up thusly–if you believe, no evidence is necessary. If you don’t, no evidence is sufficient. The fact remains that some evidence does exist. And atheism remains a minority position. Millions of believers have existed throughout history–some of them highly educated, rational people.
you sir are an atheist I completely agree with
You don’t see people saying that to children who believe in God either, and you’d damn well be seeing it said to adults who said they believed in Santa.
You’re kind of missing the point anyway, which is that the evidence for Santa is exactly the same as the evidence for God.
Well, yeah. Tex Avery created Daffy Duck some time in the 20th century. The universe has existed for billions of years. Therefore, Daffy Duck could not have possibly created the universe before he even existed.
You can’t possibly know that Daffy Duck isn’t an artist’s rendition of a remarkable, real, talking duck.
no, you’re kind of missing the point. Have you read my OP at all? This thread is NOT about what you have successfully hijacked other posts to.
The Bible is not evidence at all, actually, and none of its supernatural claims have been corroborated.
Just to be clear, the standards of scientific evidence are not the same as the standards for legal evidence. Mere claims do not rise to the level of “evidence” in science as they do in a courtroom, which uses a looser definition.
No, you totally missed the point of the Santa Claus analogy, and I haven’t hijacked the thread at all, nor do I have any idea what what you think I’m hijacking it TO.
Uh, okay. Wow.
Uh… so? Parts of the DC universe take place in real world cities. Is that evidence for Superman? Seriously. That is like the kind of profoundly shitty, weak-tea argument I’d expect from a drive-by witness account.
Plenty of rational people believe. But zero of them have done it for a rational reason. People aren’t Vulcans (although, since Star Trek has some real-world locations corroborated by other sources, I suppose Vulcans might be real by your standards :rolleyes:). People can be rational 99% of the time and do something stupid the rest.
Believing in a religion is one of those something stupid times. It doesn’t mean that the person is stupid the rest of the time or a wildly irrational person.
How do you know that the eternal, uncreated Daffy Duck did not merely project His image into the mind of Tex Avery at the time which served His ineffable, Daffy plan for the universe?
Well, yes, actually we can know this. It would require examining every duck in the world, but it’s entirely possible.
Because we would have expected Tex Avery to say something about this.
There is but one God Daffy and Tex Avery is his prophet.
Shitty argument, bro. The Jewish God was invented by men long after the creation of the universe.
But if someone says Daffy Duck is just a cartoon character, you don’t see other people getting indignant and apoplectic about it and saying, “you can’t prove he DOESN’T exist.”