What if eternity is a an intuition,a feeling,an experience? — Zenny
Indeed. I've challenged many atheists on this site to start threads and they were all afraid to do so. I'm not sure why these discussions are so emotionally charged for them. — 3017amen
You think life is a dictionary definition?! — Zenny
Yes,I've experienced eternity,continously as well. — Zenny
Since when was the truth a particular conception only? — Zenny
Your defensiveness shows your fear and anxiety of eternity. Or for you,let's say life after death. — Zenny
Who said eternity doesn't involve time? It means continuous unending time.
And why can't that be experienced? — Zenny
The reactions of some atheists to a discussion is a proof itself of fear. — Zenny
We do not start new threads, true. But it's not due to fear. It is due to our foreknowledge of our complete inability to get through to you, because you surround your mind with a senseless, reasonless, stupid religiosity. — god must be atheist
Think of it this way, those of you who continue to insist God does not exist (which is false in the face of Christianity), should start threads, rather than troll honest threads that want to explore the philosophical reasoning associated with a God's existence. — 3017amen
And here, e.g., you have been repeatedly advised that atheism is not a belief system, though perhaps being one for some. You even suppose that I am an atheist, though told more than once I am not.you have effectly put yourself in a precarious and untenable position of having to defend your belief system — 3017amen
:100: :up:Just asking this question displays an ignorance of what atheism is. — DingoJones
I don’t know why this question has gotten 13 pages of mileage.
Asking if atheists hope there is no god is like asking if atheists like vanilla ice cream. They may or may not, as like their taste in ice cream whether or not they hope god doesn’t exist will vary with each individual.
Hoping whether god exists or not isn’t definitive of atheism, what’s definitive of atheism is whether or not you believe there is a god and that’s it.
Some atheists might like the idea of god bit just are not convinced there actually is one. Other atheists are anti-theists and reject that there being a god is a good thing.
Just asking this question displays an ignorance of what atheism is. — DingoJones
Nice work - agree. A lot of people who have been socialized into religions seem unable to even hear the definition in order to grasp it and seem willfully culpable of misrepresenting atheism wherever possible in order to trash the idea with some interpretive smear or another. Of course many atheists do similar things to theism, so I guess it's par for the course... — Tom Storm
:smirk: :clap:As to the religious...well they already believe in fairy tales and myths so expecting an honest, straightforward conversation is a long shot from the get go. They have already drawn their conclusion and all argumentation is just a attempt to rationalize that conclusion. This of course is the exact wrong way to come to conclusions. — DingoJones
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