Is God a self-deception?

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Pamho, agtSP!

 

Some feedback please!

 

Is God a self-deception?

 

Quite a few times in my debates with atheists I have encountered the

following answer to my question about whether or not the atheist can prove

that there are no good reasons to believe in God.

 

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Theist: Can you prove that there's no good reason to believe in God?

 

Atheist: Yes, because it's impossible to prove or disprove a self-deception

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Even though this is a wierd kind of answer I have seen it quite a few times.

Therefore I want to show why it's irrational.

 

The atheistic argument can be standardized in the following way:

 

1. It's impossible to prove or disprove a self-deception

2. The statement ”God exist” is a self-deception

3. Therefore, it's impossible to prove or disprove the statement ”God exist”

(follows from 1 and 2)

4. If a given statement is impossible to prove or disprove then there's no

good reason to believe it

5. It's impossible to prove or disprove the statement ”God exist” (see 3)

6. Therefore, there is no reason to believe the statement "God exist" and

therefore there's good reasons to be an atheist (from 4 and 5)

 

Why the argument fails

 

The first premise in this atheistic argument is self-contradictory, because

if you know that God is a self-deception, then you must also know that God

doesn't exist. Otherwise how could the claim that He exist be a

self-deception? Further, if you know that God doesn't exist, then there must

also exist a disproof for His existence, otherwise how could you know that

he doesn't exist? So, premis 1 is a self-contradiction. Therefore there's a

logical contradiction between the first two premises (1 and 2) and the first

conclusion (3). Consequently the whole argument falls to pieces.

 

But to make things worse for the atheist we can also argue that to postulate

”God is a self-deception” (premise 2) is to postulate that God is unreal,

and therefore that God doesn't exist. To know that God doesn't exist one has

to have knowledge of everything. Otherwise it's impossible to see whether or

not there's no proofs at all for Him. Thus, to say that God is a

self-deception one has to be omniscient. In other words, one has to be God

to disprove God, which is self-contradictory.

 

The atheistic argument is simply totally useless.

 

Ys, AKD