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Originally Posted by Yggdrasil
"There is an expression that helps much to understand this word (faith). "Faith is an acceptance of a truth that cannot be seen nor felt. One only believes in the veracity of He who has taught it (whatever you're believing in; in this case, Christianity) It would therefore be contradicting (to belief) to first see (proof) and then accept (the truth).
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Man, if I ever needed an example to demonstrate the logical fallacy of an "argument from authority", this would be it.
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Originally Posted by BrokeProphet
Science and logic deal in knowledge. You cannot have knowledge about something that is unmeasurable, undetectable, untestable, and you cannot have knowledge and have faith.
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So, the true atheist would declare no position at all, on any such matter, until evidence is produced in favor of it. Then would this not make any claims of death being nothingness, God not existing, and the soul imaginary, unatheistic?