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enderjed wrote:
No, atheists don't go to anti-church, or try to put the smoke back into incense. But they begin their beliefs from a position of faith.
No, they do not. That's ridiculous. That's no different from asserting that if I refuse to accept my neighbor's claim that he saw a 300' long UFO I am approaching it from a "position of faith".
No, I am not. I am approaching it from the POV that HE is the one making the extraordinary claim and it is HIS duty to support it not mine to disprove it (especially as Logic 101 shows, one cannot prove a negative).
Again, the most generic atheist position is implicit, simply passive withholding of the investment of intellectual or emotional capital and resources in an extraordinary claim ALREADY made. There is NO active component. OTOH the God believer is making an active, positive claim. It is his job to support it.
When you get your head together on this, let me know. Until then I will regard you as a loon.
