Like poverty, corruption and crime, God affects other people that inhabit the world I live in. And they affect me.
How does God affect you?
I am OK with it making no sense to you.
At least you acknowledge you are obsessed with God.
You do after all, believe you have a(n unevidenced) god living in your head, so it's not surprising that a lot of normal things don't make sense to you. Like, say, social interaction?
I’ve no idea what you’re talking about?
What do you mean by “god”?
He has no such obligation.
Nor is there a need: it sorts itself out automatically: Those who feel the thread relevant to them will participate, and those who don't feel it's relevant will not.
He does.
Nothing can be proven outside of mathematics.
So the answer to his thread question is obviously no. But what does he mean by “god and gods”?
And why stop at theists!
Everybody is capable of creating fiction.
We live in a world where fiction is the order of the day. I would like to dig deeper and gain some understanding of what is being got at here.
Why does does he think that God is, or could be fictional?
I have plenty of definitions of God.
So why not use your definitions instead of unicorns which has no relationship, or even in the same category as God. It would make for a better discussion. Than these atheist cheap shots. It’s like you’re afraid to have a real discussion.
The only one that really matters is your definition of God, since it is the only one here that can potentially have a champion in its corner here in this thread.
The word “God” is the definition not the name.
You do know what the definition of God is, that is why you are in denial of God. That is evidenced by you pretending to equate unicorns, and asking me about god only being in my head.
You do that on purpose to stop yourself from discussing God properly.
But it is becoming increasingly apparent that you don't have one. Or worse, you simply lack the courage to stand behind it.
I literally just gave you a link with basic definitions of God.
Choose one from there.
They are all more in line with the subject of God
If you are inacapable of grasping analogies, you won't get very far in a discsusson about abstracts.
Your analogies are in wrong category.
That is why we should get a good understanding of what is meant by God.
That is if you really are interested in a discussion.
But I think you are capable of grasping analogies; I suspect you are avoiding it because you know it skewers the hypocrisy of your position.
Here you your dishonesty horns are showing.
You already have a concept of God, but it is not the God of theists. You’re not really interested in discussion.
You demand evidence before believing in unicorns, but you do not demand evidence before believing in God. Your avoidance of this speaks louder than your involvement.
Again, based on this “analogy” I don’t know what you mean by “God”.
What makes you think you need the same type of evidence to believe in God?
This only shows you are treating the concept of God the same way you treat physical/potentially physical objects. Why do you do that? What makes you think theists understand God in this way?
Thrice you've acknowledged you have no way of determining God lives anywhere but in your head, let alone anywhere in the material world. That pretty much puts the nail in the coffin - see thread title.
I’ve read the thread title and obviously I can’t prove anything outside of mathematics. So I’m now interested in the idea behind the challenge, because being the “intelligent community” I thought maybe we extend the discussion.
Whaddya reckon?
