Is God a self-deception?

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>> 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

 

 

>Yes, it is irrational because it rests on an unproven assumption. The whole

>statement is an unproven assumption. It is not an argument, really. And as

>you explain the atheist doesn't know if it is impossible to prove or

>disprove a self deception. Why should it be impossible?

 

Of course, all arguments rests on unproven assumptions, unless they are

based on sabda-pramana, but this argument is really bad because the unproven

assumptions are very controversial - and therefore the atheist should put

forward subarguments to support them. And as you say, Prabhu, why should it

be imppossible to prove a self-deception? Of course we can prove

self-deceptions - otherwise we couldn't prove anything, because a proof for

A is also a proof that not-A is false, and that we are decieving ourselves

if we believe not-A to be true.

 

I'm mean, really, this "argument" is not even worth commenting upon because

it's so extremely foolish. But since I saw it quite a few times I thought I

would put it to rest.

 

Ys, AKD