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Originally posted by Moiraine:
So far nobody believing in God has yet answered my simple question : How would you react if a fact proved to you without doubt that there cannot be a God ? Would you be willing to accept that fact ?
I would very much like to know what your answers would be. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Moiraine, the problem I have with atheism is that a human
cannot prove anything does not exist. We experience 70 odd years if we're lucky, in a small piece of time and space, and yet we are suddenly able to suggest things don't exist anywhere at all throughout the entire universe with all it's potential parallel diminsions, alternate realities and spiritual possibilities?
Secondly, an atheist places their reality upon theists, by presuming their reality to apply to everyone - thus discrediting and devalidating the experience of someone who says they know God.
Agnosticism does no such thing. Theism does no such thing.
An agnostic view acknowledges there is potential for reality outside their own experience.
I have never tried to say "You know God exists, you're just lying or insane" whereas an atheist by default says that to me. I agree with an atheist when they say they do not know God. You most assuredly do not.
I agree with an atheist when they say they have not experienced God. You most probably have not.
If I did that would be devalidating your experience.
However, I know God. Denying his reality is impossible for me now. It would be like denying I am alive, or that I possess love.