Your response? "I have faith there is no God."
You can keep putting words in my mouth as much as you want, but it won't change the fact one iota that your absurdly ridiculous assertion 'no faith is faith' is exactly just that. Absurdly ridiculous.
The absurdity is when you compare your lack of beliefs to a turnip.
You have the capacity to believe in God. You make a decision not to believe in God. You therefore, since you don't have knowledge of God not actually existing, you hold a belief, practice a faith.
What is really wacky about your position is you take a position that God must necessarily conform to your criteria of a proof, which means you are practicing a belief that God must necessarily conform to your criteria of proof for God to exist, a logically fallacy of assuming the antecedent, so that you can then claim God doesn't exist because God doesn't your criteria for a proof.
Absurd circular logic, of course. But to maintain your faith in God, that's how it works.
God, by definition is beyond the human senses...as senses are limited instruments.
Silly that you deny your obvious faith in God...or worse, compare yourself to a turnip.
Faith allows doubt, just as courage allows fear. Both exist, except the mind chooses to act on one and not act on the other.
Rubbish.
Courage is only courage when it overcomes fear. Faith can only be faith when it overcomes doubt.
Faith is the antithesis of doubt and is the refusenik to uncertainty by necessity. Otherwise it's obviously not faith, but some mish-mash of confusion which goes a long way to explain what your posts are all about.
Yes you are wrong, again. But no surprise there.
Courageous people generally admit to feeling fear...but acting against it.
Can an equation hold both a negative number and a positive number in the equation?
Of course. So opposites can coexist, this happens all the time. Human beings have love/hate relationships all the time.
Man, you are being a real dim bulb in your efforts to defend your own faith...
So sorry that your innocent faith as a child was crushed so badly that you have to resort to such self delusions. Faith and doubt can and do exist simultaneously.
Not until faith is 100% does doubt vanish from the mind of a person, and I doubt you will find anyone, either a theist or atheist, who claims they are 100% certain on something that they can't prove. Some doubt is always there, just like fear is always there for most people...it is the mental decision that is made on which to act upon that determines the actions. So people with doubt, decide to act in faith. People in fear, decide to act courageously. The actions don't remove the doubt or fear, they simply become a physical/or mental choice of which to act upon.
Degrees of faith vary.
Up to that time of 100% faith, it might be 10% faith, 90% doubt. 50% faith, 50% doubt, 90% faith, 10% doubt, etc.
Just like we have sunlight, and darkness from shadows on the same pavement. We experience opposite values in our mind frequently.
Your argument is like a bumbling slobbering stumbling drunk, as it is the employment of an all or nothing fallacy, a fallacy of assuming the antecedent...that is logically false, and goes against the experience of human beings to be able to hold contradictory feelings or ideas at the same time...
