Why do we have to put up with Religious People?

Depends how you define God.

We always come back to that. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt there is no “infinitely powerful” God, because the term does not have any actual meaning.

If you say, “Zeus is really powerful, I mean, so way powerful you can’t imagine it,” you’re in with a chance. But when you say “Jehovah is infninitely powerful,” you’re into “invisible pink unicorn” territory.

Which god would you like me to deny? You tell me the attributes of the god you are referring to, and I will let you know whether I believe it exists. The way you say “God” in that sentence makes me tend to think you are referring to a specific deity.

I think it’s the G!

See, like i said, you wouldnt give a straight answer.

Which gods then do you believe in?

You’re not giving a straight answer. You’re the one refusing to define your terms.

And, while I am not Czarcasm, it’s not necessary to believe in any god to want the term defined before answering the question. One could be atheist about some definitions but agnostic about others.

I can give a straight answer to a straight question. As long as you refuse to define your terms, I will refuse to to try to guess what the hell you are talking about.
Define what you mean by “God”.

Use the usual definition. Like in the definition of atheist. Are you a atheist?

There is no “usual definition.”

There are a lot of people who think that there is. But they disagree wildly with each other as to what it is.

Is this supposed to be a clever way not to pin yourself down, or do you honestly don’t have a definition of the word “God”?

Use your definition, that’s fine.

But you also dodged the question of “Which gods then do you believe in?” Do you believe in any gods?

  1. It must be pointed out that the definition of “atheist” that you frequently espouse is not common at all.
  2. But since you have no problem repeating your definition of “atheist”, what is the problem with giving us your definition of “God”?

I used a definition of string atheist, which is there in wikipedia.

But use whatever definition you want.

No, I am not getting into a "definition of god " hijack. We will use your definition, that’s fine.

Okey Doaky!

God is a spherical triangle, as black as the snow and totally invisible, was President of England from 1244 to 1819, and celebrates her birthday every February 13th by giving everybody a puppy.
I don’t believe that God exists.

I don’t have one definition.

You might as well be asking me to say something about ‘dog’, while refusing to explain whether you mean a canine, or an andiron, or an insult. The concepts covered by the word ‘god’ are at least as varied.

– Czarcasm, thanks for the belly laugh!

Which gods should I believe in and why?

Now that DrDeth has agreed to use my definition of God, “A spherical triangle, as black as the snow and totally invisible, was President of England from 1244 to 1819, and celebrates her birthday every February 13th by giving everybody a puppy”, and now that I’ve stated that I most certainly do not believe that God exists it is only fair that DrDeth tell us if he believes that God exists, don’t you think?

Like i said, you would refuse to give a straight answer.

Thus, I am going to make a statement-Czarcasm believes beyond a shadow of a doubt there is no God. You may refute that if you wish.

Whatever makes you feel clever about yourself. :roll_eyes:

Making statements about other people’s beliefs is a very, very poor debate technique. You might as well write your own script, with “Simplicio” mouthing words that you then wisely rebut. You can publish that on Facebook and be happy, but you cannot pretend it’s a form of discussion or debate with actual other people.