@Ishina
I'm starting to get the impression that you like to argue for its own sake. Not that I don't appreciate a good battle of wits, but it can get rather tiresome if it becomes a fruitless back-and-forth.
I am rejecting those religions and scriptures that I know about. It's impossible for me to reject hypothetical religions and scriptures unless I at least know partly the qualities they comprise of. Until something is presented, I have nothing to reject.
Once again, I haven't argued against such a position. All I said was that it is presumptuous to dismiss
all religions without knowledge. You may not be able to reject something without knowing about it; fine, that's not a problem. All that I considered to be problematic was to assert that all religions and scriptures are bunk without actually
knowing this to be the case, but rather just assuming it.
Do you honestly expect me to sit here right now and say it is possible that fairies exist? Would you think less of me if I didn't acknowledge the possibility of fairies?
Since no logical absurdity results from their existence, it is possible that they exist. People simply don't like to acknowledge such a possibility because it's taken to be ridiculous, but that's nothing more than a matter of social conditioning, it means nothing. Granted though, the issue is complicated by the fact that the concept of fairies is arguably nothing more than a known human invention. Although, the same may be asserted of gods, the case of God's existence is more complicated than that of fairies, given its universality, it's various manifestations, and its necessity as an explanatory hypothesis, and so forth. The debate is still ongoing with regards to God, not so much for fairies.
Atheists and believers have a fundamental disagreement over something that the believer considers sacred and core to their being. Any attempt to express that disagreement, no matter how reasonably or politely stated, is going to be viewed as an attack or insult. The only way some people can tolerate being disagreed with when it’s a matter of religious faith is when it is dripping in a deferential candy coating and presented as an apology.
I never said that believers and unbelievers were identical, of course they have differences. And not all believers react this way to having their beliefs challenged.
Topic: Atheist Censorship