Is God a self-deception?

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> >OK, taking that one step further: I don't believe in your theory that

> >nothing exists until I can prove it to you, so until you prove your

> >theory to me as being valid, it doesn't exist for me, so we have nothing

> >to discuss.

>

> That's was a good one Well thought!

 

It's not "thought," it's "logic," and that's what so many atheists seem to

thrive on, and so is the only way to defeat them. Or at least to shut them

up, which is as pleasing to me as defeat, albeit perhaps not so effective.

 

> So the conclusion of our analysis is

> that the proof demands a qualified audience.

 

This is the only other response I'd ever give an atheist. I'm not really

much of an arguer, because I'm so personally so arrogant, combined with a

high level of self-confidence about my faith and dismissive of feeble

attacks on it, that the attackers generally tire of me rather swiftly

 

To be honest, I'm not really that interested in "defeating atheism." I'm on

the side of the fence that thinks the offense of preaching to the

non-believers and sinful is a detriment to chanting Hare Krishna. Mind you,

that sounds awfully lofty, since I admit the other 10 offenses are much more

of a burden to me than this one. And I am aware of what Srila Prabhupada

said about defeating the atheists, so please don't send me quote after quote

about that. I am not convinced that he meant arguing with them on internet

or in random spaces. He was more in favor of the organized and scientific

efforts of the Bhaktivedanta Institute for the educated atheists, and the

distribution of prasadam and the holy name for the ignorant masses. For

everyone in between (but not excluding those two groups), there are his

books.

 

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