If you believe in a god, you have to believe in all gods, all myths, all lore, any little made up thing. The reason you HAVE to believe those things is because the way you decide things that are real or not. If you believe in your god then you have to apply the same criteria for deciding if a god is real r not as you apply to your own god. If you don't, then you are truly are a hypocrite.
You see you apply all sorts scrutiny to science. Even to the point of using lies, revisionist history, pseudo-science to disprove proven scientific facts. When it comes to your own belief, you only need hearsay, folklore, myth, for you to believe that your faith is true. So given that by virtue of the criteria that you employ for your own faith, you must by all accounts believe anything and everything, and I mean everything no matter how ridiculous it is.
According to this christians must hold that:
scientology=fact
boogeyman=fact
islam=fact
judism=fact
druidism=fact
polythesim=fact
The Incas, Myans, Aztecs, beliefs=fact
Ghost dancer spirit=fact
Tiki gods=fact
You have set the criteria so you have to believe all of it.
Now for we atheist that need fact, yes we are skeptics about religion, but the difference is that we apply the same criteria for religion as we require for science. Therefore we as atheist are not hypocrites for disbelieving in gods because we apply the same criteria.
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If they ever did that we may have a little bit of peace on earth. These guys can't stop fighting over who's god is strongest.
Yes, the realm of circular logic and "presuppositionalism".
https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2016/05/29/professor-wants-christian...
Quote: “..the pre-suppositional framework of a Christian world view”, as opposed to the “radical secularist” position.. Unquote.
Now a counterargument I could see for that (as wrong-headed as it is) would be:
"Well, you Atheists worship science, so using your framework, you can't believe in ANY science unless you believe in ALL science. Believe in biology? You better also believe in homeopathy. Believe in astronomy? You better also believe in geocentrism. If you don't, then all you're proving you believe in is hypocrisy."
Of course, the obvious rebuttal is that this fails to take into account a basic understanding of what the scientific method is. Their counterpoint is that we, as atheists, fail to understand what their belief system is.
No we don't misunderstand their belief system, it is the fact that they ignore facts. Of course homeopathy and astronomy aren't sciences. So their rebuttal or point is nonsensical.
Not trying to be a complete pedant, but astronomy is a science. I think you're getting it confused with astrology, which is the zodiac nonsense.
You're correct my mistake.
It is a common mistake because the words are similar, I've even heard scientists make it, with some good natured ribbing following.
I know better. It was a stupid mistake by me.