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Buzz cook

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22. Depends on what god
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 03:48 PM
Jan 18

Some like Thor or a charioteer that drives the sun across the sky then walks it back through the underworld, are pretty easy to disprove.
Most gods with a direct and necessary role in nature are pretty easy to disprove because we now know how lots of thing in nature work. So rain gods need not reply.
Then there is a question of how a god is described. Yahweh can't be omnipotent cause there are logical contradictions, can he make a rock too heavy for him to lift or make a married bachelor? So he got down graded to maximally-logically-consistent-potent.
Then there is the question of how we know a god.
Direct revelation would be great, but doesn't seem to happen now. Inner revelation, the internal witness is problematic because if a god dwelt in us then there could be no doubt, yet even the most fervent believer has doubts.
So the vast majority of people get their knowledge of gods indirectly, either from church writing or a person telling them. The problems here should be obvious. I don't know any holy book without contradictions or some really problematic things in it. Given the number of grifters out there, how do you tell the holy ones from Jim Jones?

So yes you can disprove gods.

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Atheism is not a religion. Basso8vb Dec 4 #1
This is the AI answer and I tend to agree with it. walkingman Dec 4 #2
You're an Agnostic. Think. Again. Dec 4 #3
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"single celled organisms got woke" Beartracks Dec 4 #5
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Being religious I absolutely agree with this post Stargazer99 Dec 5 #15
I dismiss deities like unicorns. Cartoonist Dec 4 #9
It is correct neither can prove their position. HAB911 Dec 4 #10
Depends on what god Buzz cook Jan 18 #22
It's called agnostic - Nigrum Cattus Dec 4 #11
The world might have embraced a community of non-religious people no_hypocrisy Dec 4 #12
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I am atheist Farmer-Rick Dec 6 #16
I'm not sure what you mean by "an opposition to all the belief systems they reject" muriel_volestrangler Dec 16 #17
What I mean by that.... Joe Nation Dec 17 #18
I can't see why that's "subordinate", though muriel_volestrangler Dec 17 #19
I have seen no compelling evidence for the existence of a god or gods. Iggo Dec 22 #20
you are most likely agnostic state of stupid Dec 30 #21
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