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6. You should read beyond headlines.

Sat Oct 24, 2015, 06:58 PM

Oct 2015

The same confidence that many of my friends have in the belief that Jesus walks with them is the confidence that I have that nobody walks with me. The cold truth that when I die I will cease to exist in anything but the memory of those I leave behind, that those I love who leave are lost forever, is always with me.

These are my truths. I don’t like these truths. As a mother, I’d give anything to believe that if anything were to happen to my children they would live forever in the kingdom of a loving God. But I don’t believe that.

But my conviction that there is no God is nonetheless a leap of faith. Just as we have been unable to prove there is a God, we have also been unable to prove that there isn’t one. The feeling that I have in my being that there is no God is what I go by, but I’m not deluded into thinking that feeling is in any way more factual than the deep conviction by theists that God exists.

Anyone who asserts that atheism, or theism, makes one superior to the other is a fool. In every sense.

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My atheism does not make me superior to believers. It's a leap of faith too [View all] rug Oct 2015 OP

The article's title is wrong: as far as unprovable claims go, unbelief is more rational than belief Yorktown Oct 2015 #1

You should read beyond headlines. rug Oct 2015 #6

Atheism does not confer superiority, but theism confers inferiority Yorktown Oct 2015 #16

Lol, therefore those superior to theists are . . . .? rug Oct 2015 #17

Atheists are the default position, an average bunch of Joes and Janes Yorktown Oct 2015 #18

No, they're not. (And it's atheism, not atheists.) rug Oct 2015 #21

"there is no burden of proof for the unprovable" is a cop-out Yorktown Oct 2015 #23

I still think that reality has some advantages over make-believe. immoderate Oct 2015 #2

How does the lack of knowledge of the unknown or the unproven establish reality? rug Oct 2015 #7

The default position for random claims about the unknown is disbelief. cpwm17 Oct 2015 #8

There is no default position. There is no burden of proof for the unprovable. rug Oct 2015 #9

Ignoring all of the good arguments against the existence of any god cpwm17 Oct 2015 #10

You could discuss a horse's pimple but I doubt you'd find many willing to argue that with you. rug Oct 2015 #11

I don't know is a great answer when there is no evidence or logic to explain the unknowable. cpwm17 Oct 2015 #22

There may not be. rug Oct 2015 #24

But there is a burden of proof about the comical holy books Yorktown Oct 2015 #19

You have not read post 11, have you? rug Oct 2015 #20

Same "leap of faith" that prevents me believing in werewolves. immoderate Oct 2015 #12

Except werewolves have measurable traits. rug Oct 2015 #13

Oh really? immoderate Oct 2015 #14

Remus Lupin told me. rug Oct 2015 #15

"Leap of faith"? bvf Oct 2015 #3

Yep... haikugal Oct 2015 #4

More like leaping OVER faith (nt) Autumn Colors Oct 2015 #5