ext_97969 ([identity profile] luckylefty.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] dougo 2010-04-13 11:17 pm (UTC)

So it is possible that, should a case of this particular bullet point come up, the particular atheist who wrote that web page could be intellectually dishonest. There's a big leap from there to your claim that is essentially that all atheists are in fact intellectually dishonest.

You believe that you live in Massachusetts, right? Is this falsifiable, or a dogmatic unfalsifiable belief? If not what would convince you otherwise? Make sure that what you specify is so clear and unambiguous that you couldn't possibly weasel out of it in any way.

I think that there is sufficient evidence that God does not exist to warrant belief in that statement. You don't. But I'm willing to accept that reasonable people can disagree. But you are certain that I'm wrong, wrong, wrong, and that you know for a fact that I can't possibly be reasoning from the evidence, and insulting me by accusing me of dogmatism and intellectual dishonesty. There is rudeness and lack of willing to accept the existence of legitimate differing points of view in this conversation, but it's coming from the agnostic, not the atheist.

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