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    Atheists: does God exist?

    Hope has nothing to do with belief, or good evidence. It's what we turn to when we don't have enough evidence to believe in. But we still want (hope for) a specific outcome. Since we have to act to move forward, anyway, we choose to act as if what we hope to be the outcome will be the outcome...
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    Atheists: does God exist?

    I don't know how to respond. That bias against religion is dominating your thinking and obscuring your view of reality. But nothing I say will change that. And I couldn't really care less about religion, myself, anyway. So it's not my boogeyman nor my bailiwick. I guess I'll just leave it at that.
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    Mike Johnson Gives Impassioned Ukraine Speech as He Defies MAGA

    It's an old story, really. A man makes a deal with the Devil to get something (undeserved) that he really, really wants. And he gets it. The Devil is good on his word. But then, the man begins to realize that having that thing he wanted so badly wasn't exactly as he'd imagined it would be. And...
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    Atheists: does God exist?

    Aren't we making our own future regardless? To the degree that it is possible for us to do so? Humans will turn anything into a weapon when they are looking for conquest. Science, history, philosophy, politics, art, religion, food, money, ... anything that can be used to hurt people will be...
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    Atheists: does God exist?

    Why are you assuming that acting on hope means ignoring all the pertinent information? Again, you are assuming that to act on hope means to ignore any pertinent information. Why are you assuming this? Like I am an old man that still needs to go to work every day. So I am hoping my body will...
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    Atheists: does God exist?

    Do you fear that if you were to dare to hope in a God that you would become one of these religious people that you think are bad? I'm not getting the point, here.
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    Atheists: does God exist?

    Both of those comments look to be far more fear based than truth based. As in the fear of being 'wrong'. If you want to avoid "false beliefs" stop believing in things. It's not that difficult, and it's more honest, since we humans can't honestly be certain of anything we believe to be true...
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    Atheists: does God exist?

    But hope does not require that we believe anything. It only requires the willingness to 'act as if' so as to see what results. Why is it any more "dishonest" to act on the hope that God exists then it is to reject the very real possibility that God exists? Yes. Often.
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    Why the burden of proof lies on God ?

    There is an irrefutable logical necessity for existential origination. And that, by definition, transcends the nature of existence as it is now being expressed. Being cannot logically have occurred from non-being. If we label this transcendent mystery source "God" (as most people do), then...
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    Why the burden of proof lies on God ?

    Convincing you, or anyone, is not the responsibility of the claimant. Nor is it a requisite for the truthfulness of the claim. What I find convincing does not determine the logical validity of the claim, nor it's likelihood of being true.
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    Why the burden of proof lies on God ?

    No it's not. It just means the logic is sound. There may still by other paths of logic that are equally sound, that lead to a different conclusion. And this is very often the case. I think you're over-estimating the meaning of "irrefutable". The logical reasoning may be irrefutable, but that...
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    Why the burden of proof lies on God ?

    Facts are just bits of information that appear true in relation to other bits of information. A fact claim is not a truth claim. And as it is not reasonable to expect the claimant to provide us with "proof" of anything, all we can expect from them is the reasoning through which they concluded...
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    Atheists: does God exist?

    We can be skeptical, or we can be hopeful in the face of our unknowing. This isn't supposition. It's an actual choice. I can see the positive reasoning for being hopeful. But I don't see much positive reasoning for being skeptical. So I have to ask myself why one would choose skepticism in the...
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    Atheists: does God exist?

    But we can't know the truth of God. So what are you calling a "reflection"? Because it certainly sounds like it's just an unknowing bias.
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    Why the burden of proof lies on God ?

    There are irrefutable logical reasons that some people presume that some sort of meta-being exists. You may not be aware of those reasons, or may refuse to accept them, but they stand valid, nevertheless. These reasons are not "proof", but proof is an unreasonable expectation to place upon...
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