And straight away, we have an excellent example.
Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Halfwit_Atheist
I am an atheist. I like to ask perfectly reasonable questions, because Christians can not answer the, without denying the existence of their god. Therefore, their god must not exist.
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Working backwards from your conclusion:
Therefore God does not exist.
OK, now what was it you had just before that:
Christians can not answer without denying God's existence.
It may come as some surprise to you, but Christians
’ answers in my experience when I was a heathen wretch never included the datum that God did not exist. Mohammedans
’ answers never presupposed that Mohanned did not exist, Concucians
’ answers never presupposed that Conficius did not exist (although they would probably agree that it didn't matter whether he did or not because the analects exist and that is what they follow), Sikhs
’ answers do not deny the existence of Guru Nanak and, as far as I am aware, Hindus do not deny the existence of whatever goblin they're wordhipping today when they reply. So far so good.
So next up, moving back in your argument, we should come to tha actual question you say I'm unable to answer without denying God's existence:
I am an atheist. I like to ask perfectly reasonable questions
That's it. Not an argument at all. I don't know what it is. It's not really a statement, just a sort of unrelated gobbledygooks.
How would you respond to this, I wonder?
I am a Christian. I like to ask perfectly reasonable questions because atheists can not answer them without accepting the existence of God. Therefore, God must exist.