• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    but if you are an atheist because you think God should follow our rules

    You can’t be an Atheist if you believe a god exists that should follow our rules.

    That is like the whole point of Atheism.

    • Knightfox@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Tell that to the self proclaimed atheists that use the morality of God as a reason why there is no god. To be clear I agree, but I’m tired of hearing the argument.

      • abraxas@sh.itjust.works
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        Again, atheists tend to argue the LPOE terribly.

        The Argument From Evil, properly stated, concludes that no god exists because it defines God as a necessarily omnipotent/omni-benevolent being. I think it’s weak because it leans on a version of God that most religious people don’t REALLY believe. It then leans on the fact that lines like “God is not good” or “God is not omnipotent” gets religious folks’ back up.

        If the only way an atheist argument wins is because the valid logic objections to it are frustrating to Christians, it’s not a great argument.

        But stated right, it IS still an argument for the nonexistence of God, not an argument that “God exists but is immoral”.