God is a conspiracy theory of reality.

God is not an explanation, it’s an excuse offered without justification, an added abstraction of mental creation.

As I thought, YOU do not have an answer to what a “god” is?

God-something claims are not required or needed to explain things that happen in the universe,

they are all devoid of magic anything.

What do you mean by god?

Are you just making stuff up or guessing/hoping or just promoting unjustified ideas you want to believe, what is a god? What makes you think this naturalistic reality contains unproven magic or supernatural anything and how do you know that you are not in error?

“How do I know that I’m not in error?” – Questioner

Damien Marie AtHope, Have a valid standard; I value a good belief etiquette such as a reasoned belief acquisition, good belief maintenance, and honest belief relinquishment.

“Well my bible “the Holy Bible” tells me to try every spirit and see if its true. I’ve tried my God before by asking for signs that he is there and guess what, he did. I know my God exists because I’ve tested his existence with my own expectations” – Questioner

Damien Marie AtHope, Well, how do you know anything in the bible is true or not without error? And, What is a god?

“Blessed are those who believed without seeing” – Questioner

Damien Marie AtHope, So you don’t know?

“The book was written so that the future generation could see the works of God ACD, I know what is God not “a god” God is the creator, he is the Giver of Life but like he said to Moses, He is what he is, meaning that he can be what you want him to be. He is a father to the fatherless, a caretaker to the orphans… I see God in my situations today as my funder, because through me praying to Him for my situation, I’m being funded by various people” – Questioner

Damien Marie AtHope, Sorry, this is no kind of answer: you stated nonsense “God is the creator” well first tell me what a god not what you think a god can do. Again, what is a god, the thing itself? How do you claim to know what the book the bible was made for? I say it was for dogmatic propaganda and nationalism then hijacked by a new religion the Christians that had other uses for it that was not too different than the tool for manipulation it is used for today. You were conned into believing the nonsense it claims and you do this like all faith drunk because you trusted someone in power who lied to you. And such lies are common in all religions and why religion is more about geography than facts with around 73 % of all religious believers with the religion common to an area, family or nationality. So, No, you don’t have any idea what is a god and I am going to help you realize this to remove your thinking errors.

“Enlighten me as to what is a god then, I don’t claim to know what the bible is about” – Questioner

Damien Marie AtHope, GOD is a three letter noise given pseudo meaning the faith drunk are made to believe is something real when its just empty words, not even words all religious agree not even in the same religion nothing but written or verbal confusion born out of animism early religions started in Africa over 100,000 years ago. * “animist” Believe in spirit-filled life and/or afterlife (you are a hidden animist/Animism : an approximately 100,000-year-old belief system Qafzeh: Oldest Intentional Burial of 15 individuals with red ocher and Border Cave: intentional burial of an infant with red ochre and a shell ornament (possibly extending to or from Did Neanderthals teach us “Primal Religion (Animism?)” 120,000 Years Ago, as they too used red ochre? well it seems to me it may be Neanderthals who may have transmitted a “Primal Religion (Animism?)” or at least burial and thoughts of an afterlife they seem to express what could be perceived as a Primal “type of” Religion, which could have come first is supported in how 250,000 years ago Neanderthals used red ochre and 230,000 years ago shows evidence of Neanderthal burial with grave goods and possibly a belief in the afterlife. Think the idea that Neanderthals who may have transmitted a “Primal Religion” as crazy then consider this, it appears that Neanderthals built mystery underground circles 175,000 years ago. Evidence suggests that the Neanderthals were the first humans to intentionally bury the dead, doing so in shallow graves along with stone tools and animal bones. Exemplary sites include Shanidar in Iraq, Kebara Cave in Israel and Krapina in Croatia. Or maybe Neanderthals had it transmitted to them Evidence of earliest burial: a 350,000-year-old pink stone axe with 27 Homo heidelbergensis. As well as the fact that the oldest Stone Age Art dates to around 500,000 to 233,000 Years Old and it could be of a female possibly with magical believed qualities or representing something that was believed to)

“Let me tell you something by this with this “Three letter noise word”. There was a principal at a certain primary school from my hometown, she was diagnosed with Cancer at the back of the neck. She invited me to her house and I got there and we prayed then my spirit told me that it was not cancer, but it is a lump at the back of the neck. Guess what, I prayed for the lady and when she got to the hospital, they said she had no traces of cancer whatsoever. I did that praying to God in Jesus Name. Now, did I do that alone or I was just dreaming that this god came through for her?” – Questioner

Damien Marie AtHope, So, you, as I thought, do not have an answer to what a god is?

Debunking Jesus? https://damienmarieathope.com/2016/01/debunk-jesus/

Archaeology Disproves the Bible https://damienmarieathope.com/2015/11/archaeology-disproves-the-bible/

Hey, Damien dude, I have a question for you regarding “the bible” Exodus. https://damienmarieathope.com/2017/10/hey-damien-dude-i-have-a-question-for-you-regarding-exodus/

Jews, Judaism, and the Origins of Some of its Ideas https://damienmarieathope.com/2017/09/jews-judaism-and-the-origins-of-some-of-its-ideas/

Jews enslaved in Egypt is Myth….. https://damienmarieathope.com/2017/04/jews-enslaved-in-egypt-is-myth/

Paulism vs Jesus https://damienmarieathope.com/2017/07/paulism-vs-jesus/

Understanding Religion Evolution: Animism, Totemism, Shamanism, Paganism & Progressed organized religion https://damienmarieathope.com/2018/01/understanding-religion-evolution-animism-totemism-shamanism-paganism-progressed-organized-religion/

“It seems like you believe anything that comes your way and tries to contradict the bible and God” – Questioner

Damien Marie AtHope, How confused you are standing there with an empty nothing you call god and nothing else but faith blindness that you have anything of value. While I offer you many things of value, facts removing your credibility and showing it is you that cannot answer the simple question of what a god is and you put your makebelieve against what I give you, such as my offering you blogs with valid science, archaeology, anthropology, and philosophy. How can you be so confused to not see it’s you that believes anything some person above you told you about the bible without even questioning if it is true?

“Damien, god is Anything. That is worshipped” – Challenger

My response, You stated, a deity/god is “Anything. That is Worshipped.” So, no justification of a reality thing, when the term god is used? Are you agreeing that god is a three letter noise that just involves make-believe in the assessment of the thing called god?

“Damien, it definitely can be.” – Challenger

My response, That doesn’t explain what a god is, please explain what a god is?

“Damien, not sure what else you want?” – Challenger

My response, You need to explain a claim of a real thing by giving the real qualities that make it up. I am asking you to establish your burden of proof of your god concept as something more than just words that fill a reality empty concept like god?

“What more words do you need? I said anything that can be worshiped, that is worshipped. What qualities are you looking for?” – Challenger

My response, “Anything that can be worshiped, that is worshipped”, that is an abstraction and not denoting a reality thing. If you agree god is only a concept people attach to things and not real then cool. 🙂

“Oh they’re just as real as people make them. And every single one has its own qualities that each person sympathizes with and symbolizes with. Denying that that thing is real to that person usually causes a violent or emotional outbreaks. And men don’t die for things that aren’t real.” – Challenger

My response, People die for fake things all the time. Sad but still true. :(“

“Name one” – Challenger

My response, Well, “religion” with its pseudo-science, pseudo-history and its pseudo-morality.

“That doesn’t exist.” – Challenger

My response, Are you for real. lol

“Yes, because what is real is only determined by each individual. If a person dies for something it was real to that person well it was real to another is inconsequential at that point.” – Challenger

My response, So are you making the global claim of people living in their phenomenology not that no religion is a promoter of pseudo-science?

“No, if there is scientific research to something it is not pseudoscience.” – Challenger

My response, So “No” is because you believe in science but is that a yes that you do believe there are religions that promote pseudo-science, right?

“There is no such thing as pseudo-science if it has scientific research to back it up.” – Challenger

My response, So you don’t think any religion has pseudo-science? Have you not heard of Scientology? Are you saying Scientology doesn’t have pseudoscience? lol Or all the pseudo-science in the bible?

“No. Because science is a process. Not a conclusion. There is stronger science and there is weaker science.” – Challenger

My response, So, evasion rather than an answer?

“I didn’t evade anytning. You just seem to have problems with my answers, I wonder if atheists are intelligent enough to understand sometimes. I really do, because I can’t make my statements more clear sometimes.” – Challenger

My response, There is stronger science and there is weaker science” (not a scientific statement) So you don’t think any religion has pseudo-science? and your non-response, is to say there are different forms of science, is not what I asked and you evaded it. “You just seem to have problems with my answers, I wonder if atheists are intelligent enough to understand sometimes.” vile rhetoric alert, nonsense added to try and poison the well, an intellectually dishonest behavior.

“An absolute scientific statement, Science is a method, not a conclusion. No, I don’t. I said that, this my confusion to your accusation.” – Challenger

My response, “Intellectual honesty vs Intellectual dishonesty? Intellectual honesty is honesty in the acquisition, analysis, and transmission of ideas. A person is being intellectually honest when he or she, knowing the truth, states that truth. Some intellectual dishonesty can be subtle. For example, relevant facts and information may be purposefully omitted when such things contradict one’s hypothesis, or facts may be presented in a biased manner or twisted to give misleading impressions. Broadly speaking, any of the following behaviors would fall under intellectual dishonesty. Intellectual dishonesty also can involve deliberately ignoring facts and arguments that would undermine your position. (willful ignorance) Intellectual dishonesty can also involve knowingly using a logical fallacy. And, intellectual dishonesty can involve arguing for a viewpoint you yourself disbelieve. Exception: “arguing for a viewpoint you yourself disbelieve” The role of devil’s advocate, when consciously acted out, is not intellectually dishonest. A good devil’s advocate will express the opposition’s strongest arguments, and draw attention to the weaknesses of the arguments of co-thinkers. This is a valuable tool for intellectual rigour and honesty, and also helps to ward off the dangers of echo chambers and the resulting groupthink. Moreover, Common forms of intellectual dishonesty include plagiarism, applying double standards, using false analogies, exaggeration and overgeneralization, presenting straw man arguments, and poisoning the well (not literally).” Link

The Mental Parasite Called God?

God is not simply a myth, it a mental parasite feeding off your life, is like a mental prison concept, disemboweling you, and any religion that supports the concept of god(s), becomes like a controlling jailer to the mind of the god believer. What is love, if it is so cheap, that it is for wholesale to myths? To me, it is truly a sad thing, when you have people offer more love to an unknown and at best unproven thing they call god; not even evident in this world, over real people, even loved ones, which are known in this world. Sadly, all too often a mind full of god(s) myths have no appetite for reason.

What is a gOD Challenge

“So which question do you want answered? Nice beard btw” – Questioner

Damien Marie AtHope, What is a god?

“A deity that is worshipped” – Questioner

Damien Marie AtHope, And so what is a deity but a further reality abstraction like the three-letter noise god?

“No. The deity has to demonstrate abilities above that if a human. That’s the usual answer anyway” – Questioner

Damien Marie AtHope, What is a deity and I want to know what it is not things about it, I want to hear what the thing is?

“The thing is what I said. Anything. That is worshipped” – Questioner

Damien Marie AtHope, You stated, a deity/god is “Anything. That is Worshipped.” So, no justification of a reality thing, when the term god is used? Are you agreeing that GOD is a three letter noise that just involves make-believe in the assessment of the thing called god?

Do you believe in god?

Ok, What is a god and how can you claim to know about this?

The Disproof Atheism Society: EMPIRICAL, CONCEPTUAL, and DISPROOFS of gOD

“Damien, is it possible, just possible, there’s a God you haven’t considered? Maybe, like Christians who don’t understand how certain natural explanations can be true, it is also you that lacks imagination.” Questioner

My response, I know the full history of religion and when and why gods were likely invented, it was in the agricultural area around 12,000 years ago I have no more reason to ponder than real any more than Superman, an extraterrestrial living a hidden life on earth helping others with god-like powers. Goddesses (at least by 12,000 years ago in what is now turkey) were likely first after animals as god-like beings specifically seen 70,000 years ago with the first human worship of a stone snake in southern Africa. Well, it started female-centric but generally egalitarianistic and was so at least tell like after 7,000 and definitely by 5,000 and the birth of statism women fall in status but to me it’s 13,000 to 12,000-year-old proto-paganism goddess and animal gods that seem to come first I presume likely was drived from lesser earlier spirit beings/mythic ancestors, like a greater symbol of clan protectors in totemism which seems to go back like 50,000 to possibly 70,000 years ago which they already believed in from both proto-animism which seems to go back like 100,000 to ? years ago (possibly pre-human maybe as far back as 300,000? years ago) and further developed in shamanism which seems to go back like 30,000.

Sedentism and the Creation of goddesses as well as gods

Yes, you need to know about Animism to understand Religion

Debunking both Positive (HEAVEN) and Negative (HELL) near death experiences.

Atheistic Null Hypothesis: There is no God/Gods

Vague Theism or god Somethingism: just say NO

Faith is Not Evidence of Reality

A.T.H.E.I.S.T.= Against Theological Heresy Endangering Intelligent Sensible Thinking

By me referring to “Theological Heresy” I am saying theology is “Heresy” to reality.

Archaeological, Scientific, & Philosophic evidence shows the god myth is man-made nonsense.

Which is first Theism or Atheism?

We start not knowing and theism is an active belief state so it is after not knowing so atheism is the default, not belief. To me, disbelief also comes after not knowing or thinking about the question of beliefs. Now it is true that until 7 children do have animism “magical thinking” styles in general, so magical agency could be applied to anything by them, though to be honest, that is not the same as inferring this is theism belief. I will now offer helpful but simplistic definitions of why a position of atheism could be chosen it is of course just an over-generalization but it will highlight the main idea though it always will be more substantive in reality and who is applying it.

“Here is my list of non-theistic and theistic assumptions”

Nonbelief:

Weakest implicit Nontheistic/Atheism “negative” / “weak” / “soft” nonbelief similar to Nontheism
Strong implicit Atheism “negative” / “weak” / “soft” nonbelief similar to Apatheist Atheism.
Weak Explicit Atheism “negative” / “weak” / “soft” atheists similar to Agnostic Atheism.
Strong Explicit Atheism “negative” / “weak” / “soft” atheists similar to Ignostic Atheism.
Strongest Explicit Atheism “positive” / “strong” / “hard” atheists similar to Antitheist Atheism.

Belief:

Weakest implicit Theistic thinking/Theism “negative” / “weak” / “soft” belief similar to Somethingism(Ietsism)/Vague Theism
Weak implicit Theism “negative” / “weak” / “soft” belief similar to apatheist theists.
Weak Explicit Theism “negative” / “weak” / “soft” theists similar to agnostic theism.
Strong Explicit Theism “positive” / “strong” / “hard” theists similar to standard theism.
Strongest Explicit Theism “positive” / “strong” / “hard” theists similar to Gnostic theism.

Let the truth destroy all lies…

It is said, that which can be destroyed by the truth should be, and being that religions are clearly full of lies, destroying the truth, that I joyfully look forward to the truth destroying these full of lies religions as soon as possible. Thankfully, I and others, are willing to help this worthy endeavor with an honest revolutionary gusto worthy of all valiant champions of truth, justice, and the way of reason.

We, Truth Seekers Battle more than just god Beliefs

One of the universal hallmarks of religion is a superstitious belief in supernatural beings or things and/or forces (AKA: animism influenced beliefs). They can take a variety forms, importance or application, which will differ but in some way are clearly found in basically every religion and are equally invalid and evidenceless as all magical thinking claims or beliefs. However, though the belief in gods (AKA: paganism influenced beliefs) needs the belief in such superstitions (AKA: animism influenced beliefs) to exist, alternatively the belief in such superstitions (AKA: animism influenced beliefs) does not need the belief in gods (AKA: paganism influenced beliefs) to exist. Therefore, we must fight more than god beliefs to remove the infectious belief, in such superstitions (AKA: animism influenced beliefs), one of the universal hallmarks of religion, in general. We must do so if we are to ever hope to attack religions at their core and if we ever hope to eradicate them fully.

Out Caring Firebrand Atheist?

I am an Axiological Atheist, with a Rationalist Persuasion, who Supports Anarcho-Humanism

I am so out about my disbelief, as I support reality and not because I feel better than a believer in supernatural things, gods or religions. Actually, I too once was the same until somewhat late in my life. In fact, I did not stop being this way until I was 35. I am so open now with good belief etiquette focusing on reasoned belief acquisitions, good belief maintenance, as well as honest belief relinquishment and challenging not out of hate or loathing, but out of deep compassion and understanding. This care wishes to save the indoctrinated victims of magical thinking falsehoods. I wish then self-esteem, self-ownership, self-leadership, self-efficiency, self-empowerment, self-love and self-mastery all of which can and in some way, are undermined by God’s and Religions; which either directly attack/challenge or subvert in some lesser realized way.

Science is an intellectual endeavor to search for that which is accurate to the way the world is while religion is still desperately relying on fantasy stories and about what the world is not full of many inconsistencies as well as glaring inaccuracies in relation to true reality, thus religion is an unintellectual endeavor forcing a non-accurate/non-truth “faith” over “valid and reliable reason and evidence” so a blind searching to not understand the accurate to the way the world actually is in reality. This is likely because religions are not “real truth” searching endeavors and beyond all the other negative things, on the whole religions and their make-believe are but conspiracies theories of reality not worth believing in. Did you know Moses write nor asked for the writing of the Torah, the first five books Jewish holy book (the old testament)? Well, Moses didn’t, and neither did Jesus write nor asked for the writing of anything not one word in the Bible, just like how Mohammed did not write nor asked for the writing of the Quran: holy book of Islam. Do you see a theme? Well, here you go, because neither did Lao-Tzu write nor asked for the writing of the Tao Te Ching, the holy book of Taoism, and guess what neither did Gautama Buddha (the first Buddha) write nor asked for the writing of a book in Buddhism. And what do you know just like all the rest neither did nor guru Nanak write nor asked for the writing of Guru Gobind Singh the holy book in Sikhism?

What do you mean by god? Funny isn’t it how almost all of the world’s religions share the same facts that the claimed holy teacher never wrote their holy book and for that matter are not even sure if they are historical or made up. But please don’t say they were not fake or that we don’t know the truth about them. Ha, ha, ha, please, I feel safe in my anti-religionism, thank you very much. I am a reality revolutionary fighting hard to defend reality as it actually is in a world working hard to do the opposite. To offer that which is not true to reality is to offer a conspiracy theory about it, including the beliefs of ghosts, gods, and religions. Believe me wrong prove it with valid and reliable reason and evidence or I don’t believe you nor would anyone have good reason to either including your self if you are an honest thinker. I don’t really have trust it is just from experience I know many beliefs people like holding are not worth believing in and full of shit. Why do most religious people claim to have religious or spiritual experiences is they add make-believe to “reality.” And the general “WHY” people profess to have religious or spiritual experiences is because we are emotional beings, that while we can employ the thinking strategy of rationalism over faith or unreason/illogical beliefs, we still often seem to prefer to follow emotional driven thinking or simply learn to appeal to emotionalism. Things are not the other way around as we are not rational beings who understand the world accurately by employing the logical thinking strategies and not thinking clouded emotionalism needed to replace faith or unreason/illogical beliefs that follow such thinking, right? We are all emotional and thus will experience emotional wonder.

This common experience of things like emotional wonder or awe is just a positive emotional hijacking, as the experience of joy, but that is just the joy of being alive, it’s wholly cheapened to me by fantasy daydreaming delusions (supernatural) to this beautiful magic devoid reality. To me, rationalistic thinkers of intellectual character engaging in a thoughtful critical challenge, and thus should strive to disagree, debate, dispute, debunk, and degrade harmful unjustified beliefs (such as pseudo-science, pseudo-history, and or pseudo-morality the stuff religions love to promote) and not the swindled or reality deluded believer. However, I understand how we treat others matters even as an atheist dealing with theists. When I get angry or frustrated, I strive to have understanding and patience. When I get to where I think I will say something hurtful, so I strive, to say it a better way if possible, as I want to help not hurt. So, I wish to something not often offered to me; I wish to be kind, compassionate, and thoughtful as much as I can, as often as I can because how we treat others matters. Therefore, even as an out firebrand atheist I do respect people, I do not respect religion. I believe in people; I do not believe in religion. Tolerance has its limits for it will not stand for blind ignorance and the intolerance of bigotry, and it’s connected injustice cross that line first. I will NOT tolerate the unjust intolerance of oppression and harm.

Because I want to live a value-driven life to promote kindness and human flourishing as an axiological atheist not just the call for reason in thinking but also thinking in behaviors as well. Simply how we treat others reflects on us just like how we make others feel about themselves tells a lot about our chosen character. Thus how we choose to treat others, respond or react to others, will often identify the kind of person we are striving to be. I wish to be a person of value. I am 100 % sure not you nor anyone can honestly justify their claim of knowing even the concept of gods, if one like me simply demands a valid and reliable ontology of the term god. I see no honesty is saying that god anything as not one person can truly even say what it is and defiantly can offer no valid justification for the thinking either the concept of gods is a thinking error period. You have no ontology of god as you have not validated the term to mean anything but myths or confusions. Provide a support to even claim what a god could or could not be then validated hoe you know this and why it is valid and reasonable or as I already know, no one honestly can they must intellectually lie or be so under confusion they can’t think clear to do so. What is this god whatever you are supposedly agnostic about? if you don’t know then you don’t have something to doubt rather you are holding open a thinking error possibility from some myth others invented without reason as if it was reason.

What do you mean by god? The concept of gods begins with a faulty presupposition of an unsound thinker who has failed to demand justification an simply accepts the absurd. May the actions of my life be written deep with the poetry of my humanity. I have one big goal in life, I just want to make the world kinder. I am intelligent enough that I see I must be open to learn from everyone around me. I don’t try to compare people, Instead, I compare ideas. I am willing to have anyone teach me something and I hope I am always so wise. Some wish for empirical proof of some god. I say no start at what is god and how is it that you are claiming to know anything about it with a sound justification. I say empirical proof of what, when you cannot justify what the term god should contain? Start by justifying there is anything in the term god other than simply a three letter noise. Theists love their faith so much they unjustifiably appealed to the term god as if its attributes were a given, well they are not and to claim they are is uninformed, intellectually dishonest or confused. Actually, I know there is no theist that has done anything but start with something unjustified “the god claim” empty of worth to begin with, then take said unjustified claim to add something to this unjustifiably defined god term and then assert this willful theist with its myth and superstition driven attributes that not one of them are justified to be packed into the term god seems a kind of mental masturbation inventing unjustified attributes drunk on some wishful thinking hijacking, may simply be confused/uninformed, not truly thinking just willfully believing or outright intellectually dishonest.

What do you mean by god? God talk is unjustified until you can demonstrate that you can know anything even belongs in the term with valid and reliable reason and justification. What is a god is the first burden of proof that is required? Some wish for empirical proof of some god. I say no start at what is god and how is it that you are claiming to know anything about it with a sound justification. I say empirical proof of what, when you cannot justify what the term god should contain? Start by justifying there is anything in the term god other than simply a three letter noise. Theists love their faith so much they unjustifiably appealed to the term god as if its attributes were a given, well they are not and to claim they are is uninformed, intellectually dishonest or confused. Actually, I know there is no theist that has done anything but start with something unjustified “the god claim” empty of worth to begin with, then take said unjustified claim to add something to this unjustifiably defined god term and then assert this willful theist with its myth and superstition driven attributes that not one of them are justified to be packed into the term god seems a kind of mental masturbation inventing unjustified attributes drunk on some wishful thinking hijacking, may simply be confused/uninformed, not truly thinking just willfully believing or outright intellectually dishonest. God talk is unjustified until you can demonstrate that you can know anything even belongs in the term with valid and reliable reason and justification.

What do you mean by god? What is a god is the first burden of proof, that is required? You say some wish for empirical proof. I say no start at what is god and how is it that you are claiming to know anything about it with a sound justification. I say empirical proof of what, when you cannot justify what the term god should contain? Start by justifying there is anything in the term god other than simply a three letter noise. Theists love their faith so much they unjustifiably appealed to the term god as if its attributes were a given, well they are not and to claim they are is uninformed, intellectually dishonest or confused. It is not intellectually honest to support that that lacks a sound justification. So there is no way a theist or agnostic can honestly assess to know, it’s like you saying you without looking can affirm what is in box A compared to box B. You nor anyone can honestly know anything get it the god term (asserted unknown box you have not looked inside, nor an you: thus you cannot claim anything is inside the hypothetical available posable attributes) you and others see as something is an unjustified list of things added without justification thus you don’t know nor can anyone justify claim knowing what should be added removed fro a possible god term, not one, one attribute, nothing… and each peace anyone wishes to add must be justified. All terms are empty of reality anything unless justified, there is nothing to add to justify the term god after doing so I will create a justifiably offered concept of a god something. What else do you have as a justification if you are a theist or an agnostic available something to assert?

What do you mean by god? I am all ears? It is nothing that I have to know other than the term god is offered without justifying anything in the term deserves to be in the term. Is god, hod fod, nod, who knows its just letters put together, is this unknown whatever a woman, man, tansgender, or intersex? Is god pink, black collarless? All claims to everything or anything and there is no such valid confirmation for anything wished to be added in the term god must be proven to intellectually claim to know them. No such thing has ever happened or could thus there is no justified thing called god, period. So, are an ignostic now and agree no one can justifiably claim to know anything about the term god but myth terms or descriptions? I don’t start with debunking the offered term god instead I wish to show the absurdity of claiming the term god has anything of value. I begin with an argument of presumptive value, prove the accurate values for anything you wish to define the term god I assert until this is done the term god and all connected ideas that appeal to the god terms meaning which had not even justifiably been defined. You can’t get any church to 100% agree on what a fod/god is or how they think or behave because there is no valid ontology to begin with before everyone gets to do that, not even one of all the famous theistic apologetics nor any reported theist in history at all are the same no it’s a shit show with ideas all over the place, all are a little different you know like myths.

What do you mean by god? I only tend to talk about ideas, not people. so I only add a thinkers name to give due credit, not because the thinking is better, not simply due to the thinker doing it is known or popular, that means little to nothing to me. I am an anarchist thinker in general thus I am not impressed by any appeal to authority that is not directly justified as valid and reliable with reason and evidence. So no need to add names it will not move me one bit but that which is reasonable as my only master, basically I only value truth and the force of the question and its offered answer. Authoritarian Truth Seekers & Anti-Authoritarian Truth Seekers? I understand that there are truth seekers and non-truth seekers (because of disinterest, dogma “false sense of truth” and/or delusion). But I also realize there are two generalized types of truth seekers:

“Authoritarian Truth Seekers and Anti-Authoritarian Truth Seekers”

Authoritarian Truth Seekers: who to me, use an Authoritarian Personality to understand, analyze, confirm truth, and limit what is thought of as truth. Authoritarian personality is a state of mind or attitude that is characterized by belief in absolute obedience or submissive to authority and possibly even one’s own authority, as well as the administration of that belief through the oppression of one’s subordinates. It is an ideology which entails accepting authority or hierarchical organization in the conduct of intellectual or human relations that includes authoritative, strict, or oppressive personality in truth acquisition and adherence to values or beliefs that are perceived as endorsed by followed leadership, authority of holy books, authority of gods, authority of beliefs held by someone who is favored or idolized, and authority of one’s own beliefs. – Link

Anti-Authoritarian Truth Seekers: who like me (I am a “Real Anarchist”) use an Anti-Authoritarian Personality to understand, analyze and confirm truth. “Anti-Authoritarian personality is a state of mind or attitude that is characterized by a cognitive application of freethought known as “freethinking” and is a philosophical viewpoint that holds that opinions should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, or other dogmas. Anti-Authoritarian personality is an opposition to authoritarianism, favoring instead full equality and open thinking in the conduct of intellectual or human relations, including democratic, flexible, or accessible personality in truth acquisition and adherence to values or beliefs perceived as endorsed by critical thinking and right reason which entails opposing authority as the means of confirmation in truth attainment.” – Link

To me, Anti-Authoritarian Truth Seekers are the only real seekers of truth.

Moreover, to value faith as a means to know reality or the truth or something, is a mental weakness of wanting one’s beliefs about reality to matter more than the actual reality. Faith in relation to truth is at best just wishful emotions over rational understanding which could involve just admitting one lacks knowledge.

Here is my blog: Authoritarian Truth Seekers and Anti-Authoritarian Truth Seekers?

My Atheistic (socialist-anarchist) Humanism?

I am an Anarchist and Strive to Fight Injustice

Reasons for or Types of Atheism

“Be Free, be Mental Dynamite.”

Philosophy should not be your master my friend; it should be your slave. I will no longer bow to an abstract not fall victim to the confusion that misses the Ontology that we are the body fully alive with every breath a self-evident absolute truth so profound it is before reason it’s the existential awareness of self-emotional aware even before any other way of awareness it is at such a core beginning we simply forward to start there confused about it or not reason or anything else that is a thinking abstraction.

Hear me; we are aware before the abstraction; we are a body feeling all that is around, fully realized when one understands that there is no aware undamaged human mind that is not emoting. This includes before, during, and after you believe you are doing reason. And this also brings up the ontological or qualities of reason. Reason is a high thinking primate mental style or process to add accuracy, we learn, well most of us try to learn how to further develop our reason, the thinking strategy to not simply have a goal of accuracy it can be so developed that its use, skilled mastery is not simply finding external truth to belief accuracy one is also achieving an inward self-mastery, not over emotion as if it was reason’s enemy.

No, emotion is a vitality needed part proven in brain damage studies. Reason and emotion are friends, more accurately we are emotional feeling beings that with emotional intelligence construct thinking methodologies to improve our accuracy or we should. Some people think you are trapped in you’re behavior. But take for instance I strive to be kind now even think I do a good job, generally. However, I was not always this way. I was extremely abused as a child (mainly before 13 years old by my father), and it made me suffer from mental health issues I can still battle today. I, one was quite different from how you view me today, this is after 20 years of on and off counseling services. One of the reasons I am good at understanding caring is much of my childhood lacked it. One of the reasons I am good at understanding kindness is I have had little in my life.

One of the reasons I am good at understanding hope is I felt little of it most of my life. I don’t just blindly theorize such things, I have lived the lack of them. This upfront view has shown me a lot, demonstrating in living color of my own experiences just how important they are and why I must further their support, firstly in my actions rather than just some call for action of others alone. Kindness used to be against my nature as a high functioning sociopath (some likely genetic most helped by my suffering abuse), but through reason, I am changed into something more than me, not a victim of my nature, I am better than merely my nature. Do all you can to help others as people matter and don’t forget you are one of the most valuable of those people that need your best too. It’s amazing how one can allow themselves to treat themselves in ways others than they would do to someone they cared about but we should be friends to ourselves first then spread such care out to the world hopefully inspiring other to do the same. I can’t stand the harmful ways of the world. Be the best you can I do all I can.

One is hardly ever shown the door to glory getting the rewards due, good thing I am a bit thug by nature. So I will fuckng brake into the closed minds, even though they wish to keep me out and want to deny my thinking truths, to keep me out, but I am not stopping my intrusive flow as you have already seen the undeniable truths in my wisdom you so wish to dent as much as you try. I have an ego like the lights above, and yet you feel my mental flames as the fire spits from every word you mental earworm one word and past your defenses I grow. You see the need for change, her that truth call out loud and don’t let a word pass gold one to try as a character like Ebenezer Scrooge which need change free your own bran as I can’t stand likes pushed as truths and the similar harmful ways of the world so I fight with all I can. Be the best you can I do all I can. I may be a champion of rationality but this is not all I am. I live by my heart but I also follow the valid and reliable reason as well as the evidence available. And strive to preposition any belief to them. This is true that even if I could affirm I was completely in error. I will let that belief go or updated as required because I am a truth seeker. I wish to be a friend to the world.

I offer myself, all I have, hoping to do all I can. Often kindness is a gift, an act of love, honoring the valued dignity of others. Eyes of hate will always find a victim, whereas eyes of love may always find a friend. One cannot simply demand respect for their character, instead, it requires that one must demonstrate it’s virtue. Even if one has a mind of a worrier but not the heart of kindness, still must learn what is worth fighting for. Love as ones thinking strategy is a feeling that can motivate a generosity of spirit which then compel my kindness. I am a thinking rule breaker, I am a deep question risk taker, I am a mental freedom firestarter, and I am a mental riot maker.

I use a kind of Dialectical Rhetoric = truth persuasion (motivational teaching)

Am I a survivor?

I fell as you tripped me again and from your hate, I remove myself from such mind and being corruption freely walking into the gates of love so longed for. You have not beaten me, you cannot stop me, you don’t want me to live, to thrive, to be all the best I can be but you hate and yet I am still here, a survivor, a full life liver, a thriver, as well as a warrior for kindness and compassion, reaching the care I was rarely offered, as a gift to the ones so desperately oppressed under your harsh gaze. May we all be free and the positive best we can be, I know I am as best I can. I am here growing stronger every day. Who am I, you ask, I respond loud and proud, I am a survivor and even in these chains from my past, you will not stop me. Sometimes, we need to see the truth, that many people are liers and deniers while claiming they are believers. Once we stop seeing the dignity of others we feel free to violate them with impunity. But when dignity is a friend respect has become once path.

I am a survivor!

“Child’s Eyes”

I find a sanctuary of hope, in the Armageddon of my life.

I see a sweet young child and I think if we are all born with love.

Where do we learn to hate?

And why?

I look into the eyes of the young child Only finding a gentle love with an uncorrupted honesty.

I think,

how I wish not to know,

hate!

I wish only for the innocence of love.

I wish the dark postcards of my heart were blank

but how can a piece of wood turn back into a tree?

How can I forget the pain inside of me?

I wish to forget.

I wish to unlearn.

To be cleansed by love and set free.

I look down into the child’s eyes wishing for what I can never have again,

My own innocence, religion you robbed me of that!

May I not be a silent watcher as millions of children are subjugated almost before their birth let alone when they can understand thought and are forcibly coerced, compelled, constrained, and indoctrinated in the metal pollution that religion can be.

My main goal against religion is to fully stop as much as possible forced indoctrination, one could ask but then why do I challenge all adults faith? well, who do you think is doing the lying to children in the first place. End Hereditary religion, if its a belief let them the equal right to choose to believe.

“Religion is an Evolved Product” and Yes, Religion is Like Fear Given Wings…

It seems ancient peoples had to survived amazing threats in a “dangerous universe (by superstition perceived as good and evil),” and human “immorality or imperfection of the soul” which was thought to affect the still living, leading to ancestor worship. This ancestor worship presumably led to the belief in supernatural beings, and then some of these were turned into the belief in gods. This feeble myth called gods were just a human conceived “made from nothing into something over and over, changing, again and again, taking on more as they evolves all the while they are thought to be special,” but it is just supernatural animistic spirit-belief perceived as sacred. So, it all starts in a general way with Animism (theoretical belief in supernatural powers/spirits), then this is physically expressed in or with Totemism (theoretical belief in mythical relationship with powers/spirits through a totem item), which then enlists a full-time specific person to do this worship and believed interacting Shamanism (theoretical belief in access and influence with spirits through ritual), and then there is the further employment of myths and gods added to all the above giving you Paganism (often a lot more nature-based than most current top world religions, thus hinting to their close link to more ancient religious thinking it stems from). My hypothesis is expressed with an explanation of the building of a theatrical house (modern religions development).

Let’s make it simple:

Atheism is the reality position.

Theism is the anti-reality position!

I don’t need religion or its fake gods.

I am will to power!

I am the “one” you have been waiting for I am will to power, a deep thought so true it has taken flight to the lofty aspirations dreamed for and a care transmitted to offer hope to humanity I believe in you and will strive to champion you with all I have for you are so worthy…

Caring Firebrand Atheist Activism

Protest theocratic theism and its Impacting oppression on atheist Human Rights

The eyes of the world predicted my failure but here I am, I am a survivor, No longer do I hide my face, I no longer fear a fall from your grace for I find my courage plain as day in the human race, may I be a good human. May I put truth above all and valiantly thrust a crusade or truth and caring, which will help show love can and will in the end if only in my black heart so often close to that deadman’s plank. I am a fighter, I don’t need you to save me, I don’t need your empty claims of magic in the world, a stumbling block to many, yet, I am no longer one of them, I am will to power. Say the truth plainly don’t allow pretend but do so with a caring desire to teach as one would to a friend. May I be a caring firebrand atheist. One, with an awakened humanity fully alive in my humanist heart, Desiring to Demonstrate my humanitarianism as I fully stand up for truth as a reality as well as kindness as all reality revolutionaries should, strongly speaking what is right as the truth is not pretended. I am bound by the limitations we all face but may I bravely be a good human past it all…

Reasons for or Types of Atheism

What it is to BE WISE

“Reason is my only master, whereas faith offered as reality is most defiantly not my friend.”

Theistic believers think that as an atheist, I have a life without meaning. What foolishness, I only have this one short life, how precious life is when you only have “one life” with no extra afterlives nor any reincarnation do-overs.

No, as an atheist, there is just this one valuable life, may I live it well.

Understanding Religion Evolution: Animism, Totemism, Shamanism, Paganism & Progressed organized religion

The Evolution of Religion and Removing the Rationale of Faith

“What do you mean by god?”

“Damien. atheism and theism are both based on faith, not fact, and thus are similarly irrational.”

My response, No, only “theism prefers faith over facts,” atheism, does not use faith and is only hindered if faith was added which it’s not even needed as theism is baseless by default. This is so as its claims are devoid of any evidence thus atheism is true. And let me explain faith as there seems to be a confusion. Faith is strong belief without evidence or contrary to evidence. I see all available evidence and not even one bit of it is supernatural and everything once believed to be magic turned out to be just natural no magic at all. To think that the belief in magic and the rejection of magic are equal is misunderstanding the evidence available, thus, is uninformed, unthinking, irrational, confused or lying.

When you say “GOD,” what do you mean by god?

Again, When you say “Proof of GOD,” Are you really asking me, What happened before the big bang?

“What do you mean by god?”

What is really being asked is, what happened before the universe of naturalism we do know exists; hoping you don’t know so it leaves open the possibility for their gOD myth of choice. What is before the big bang, “I don’t know” but I am waiting for science to one day tell us all. But, much more humble is the acknowledgement that we currently don’t know. However, it’s only reasonable to consider that all the things before are natural as that is what the big bang produced, only naturalism. With the amazing world of science facts, all one after another disproving the faulty claims of gods and religions; we need to stop asking whether believing in gods or religion is rational, and instead start asking how strongly holding onto religious belief is even cognitively possible.

Science Facts Should Make Religious Belief Impossible

What do you mean by god? So, even though You may say terms like god(s), as if that term universally means anything, without a connected myth people believe in (appeals to faith Fideism “FAITH-ISM”: faith is independent of reason, superior to reason, or reliance upon faith alone in some (generally religious) chosen beliefs and not others, even if reason is valued). But you don’t believe in a know-nothing theism “FAITH-ISM”, do you? You only value reason and evidence, right? Now, be honest when you think of god the influences of some god myth come in your head not an unknown and unknown possibly god somethingism, a vague unjustified theistic possibility thing you think came before the big bang. And, whatever, people can believe it’s a god but even if one could agree with you, honestly that would at best only get you the vague unjustified god nothing as your possibility before all the nature and reality we do know. However, we both get such a god does not fit a given religion hella vague something unknown before the big bang god if real has shown complete indifference to life on earth. So, all the religions are out the door or you could say almost all god claims can fit an origins unknown like what the big bang would limit and in that we find the problem. Religious holy book myth gods are well defined and not at all like the undefined something that could have been concluded as something before the big bang, which leaves us at, we don’t know but what is it about this unknown that can be believed to be a god something does nothing for you just as it tells you nothing and is most likely nothing but more nature just as everything we do know is a nature nothing magical.

Again, what do you mean by god?

God, should stand for confusion. Not all people who say they believe in “gOD” agree on any of what they choose to agree on starts or completes a chosen god belief. Which should offer new possible ideas concerning why disbelief actually beats belief in a god something but just like there is no exact definition of a god concept existence, some stuff will hold a never-ending problem. Therefore, in trying to define or analyze chosen god belief styles in this way any may find some aspects that definitely hold reason to challenge, the differences in god belief attribution and god belief make up of this thing called god even in members of the same religion. The utter confusion of and about what others think amounts to or demonstrates what god myth should lead a reasonable person to conclude they all have or are currently making it up. There are no gods nor supernatural anything, think otherwise prove it with valid and reliable reason and evidence. To simplify, the general idea of “god” is likely derived from a man-made animistic assumption that nature contains magic thus a magic designer or controller called gods. Some people who are atheists were never theists. How lucky not to have endured what I did. Some of these Gold Star Atheists “never-theist” atheists may wonder if they missed out on something by not being raised theistically. Yes, you missed something alright, you missed a mind full of bullshit that is as hard to escape for some me included to even begin to see clearly, is my response but likely quite similar to many other because us Brown Star Atheists “theistically-raised” atheists, we think you missed out on the fun of Something terrible like missing out on a unilateral mind rape of faith toxic beliefs…

What do you mean by god Evidence?

What do you mean by god? Are you just making stuff up or guessing/hoping or just promoting unjustified ideas you want to believe, what is a god? What makes you think this naturalistic reality contains unproven magic or supernatural anything and how do you know that you are not in error?

Do you want what is true or want what you believe without concern for what may actually be true?

Character is not something you get by accident. Just like caring for humanity should not be something you only do if it is not to hard or support equality if it’s convenient. One makes a choice to champion what is right because it is right, knowing that to do so will take hard work and one is proud to do so because they have character. I see a care for humanity as an honor for the direct part I play in it. Again, what do you mean by god and are you really “ok” with just pretend or do you seek to truly know, such as are you ethical in your prosses of forming, developing and maintaining beliefs?

As ethical atheists, we are not ok with pretend. So we are not silent because sacred falsehoods must end, even if the truth may offend. What is Faith but an unjustified belief that is willfully supported in violation to The Ethics of Belief, as faith holds a burden of proof until justified so faith claiming to “know” anything by this means is intellectually dishonest, uninformed on good belief etiquette or confused thinking offered as pseudo-knowledge? Theists like to confuse the understanding of atheism to lessen its obvious reason. So, here’s a definition of atheism: all offered claims of god(s) are baseless and devoid of a shred of testable or provable evidence and the claims of or about gods either don’t represent in reality or claim to represent things contrary to reality as well as contradicts each other requiring a conclusion of atheism (lack of belief or disbelief in theism). The god claim, is like a clown car in the magic big top of Fideism “faith-ism”, and Presuppositional Apologetics is Just Fascist Fideism all of which demonstrates the Theistic Reality Confusion.

What do you mean by god? Sure there are intelligent theists and that does not in any way make theism even reasonable as one can be brilliant and hold logical fallacies as their truth and that like any thinking errors like theism can happen to an otherwise sound thinker. I strive to be a sound thinker thus I am an axiological atheist and some may wonder what is that? Axiological Atheism (“philosophic” value theory/value science “formal axiology” social science” atheism) is Classed Under Anthropocentric (human-centered) arguments: “Axiological atheism favors humanity as the absolute source of ethics and values, and permits individuals to resolve moral problems without resorting to God. Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre and Freud all used this argument to some extent to convey messages of liberation, full-development, and unfettered happiness.” – Link

“Damien, your Axiological Atheism sounds Highly interesting! One point, though. Have you considered that all of this philosophizing will mean nothing when you are dead? Human ideology on the concepts of mortality have been around since the dawn of mankind and will continue until every last human being is dead.” – Challenger

My response, philosophizing like all science will mean nothing after “we” are dead but I care about more than me I want universal betterment and true humanity flourishing so philosophizing like all science matter in this goal does it not? I am Not just Atheist, I am a proud Anti-religionist as well as Anti-theist. Those atheists who still like esoteric religions or religious philosophies, that is not me at all I oppose it all. Yes, you read that right, I reject it all, every religion or even pseudo-religion like. Just so I am not misunderstood, this includes buddhism, satanism, taoism, paganism, wicca, spiritualism, etc. Don’t get me wrong I am against ALL religion. What makes some believed Truth is actually True? To me, truth, in general, is a value judgment we place on what we think or believe is evidence or reason. Therefore, the rational imperative on us as intellectually honest thinkers to demonstrate that the proposed evidence or reasoned assumption is actually of a high epistemic standard with as much valid and reliable reason and evidence as possible from a credible source as possible which then makes some believed “Truth” actually worthy to be seen as Epistemologically True thus a “justified true belief”. Broadly, epistemic means “relating to knowledge (itself) or to the degree of its validation” and epistemological means ” critical study of knowledge validity, methods, as well as limits to knowledge and the study or theory of various aspects of or involved in knowledge”.

What do you mean by god? I have justification to claim to know what I claim to know, that is proof, not faith which is unproof “Unjustified Belief.” Do you have such Justification? By claiming to know something by faith is to act in a way mirroring a dishonest thinker, as intellectually honest thinkers don’t claim knowledge without justification.

As a general thinking in all my epistemology is Justificationism:(philosophy) is an approach that regards the justification of a claim as primary, while the claim itself is secondary; thus, criticism consists of trying to show that a claim cannot be reduced to the authority or criteria that it appeals to. In a general way, “Justificationism” to me, is the presupposition that claims to knowledge must be authenticated, certified, verified, validated, confirmed, proven, corroborated, back up, show to be accurate, confirmed or in some other way shown to be justified. In other words, if a belief is knowledge, then it is in some way justified, and if a belief is unjustified then it is not knowledge. Justificationism” is the presupposition that claims to knowledge are on trial and the desire is make sure or demonstrate that (something) is true, thus in a Justificationism presupposition inquiry any claim to knowledge can be analyzed, for value by asking for its justification, and failure to provide sufficient justification is enough to reject that claim to knowledge until adequate justification is provided. In this context, a rational ethical belief (Ethics of Belief), is one which is justified, and a rational person is one who provides a rational ethical belief, with good reasons or proof to justify what is believed. For a justificationist, the purpose of philosophical investigation is not a search for faith (unjustified) belief, but only a search for justified true belief. This difference is subtle but important: while a justified belief is always rationally justified as true, it still must be realized that an unjustified belief is not necessarily always false but indeed is not justified. Failure to provide sufficient justification is enough to reject an offered claim to knowledge as unjustified belief (faith: belief without evidence or belief even up against contradictory evidence). These presuppositions constitute a reinforced justificationism uses and defines the rules by which competing proposals are evaluated, it can ensure any attempt to introduce faith (unjustified) belief(s) can be dismissed as unjustified. “Theory of justification is a part of epistemology that attempts to understand the justification of propositions and beliefs. Epistemologists are concerned with various epistemic features of belief, which include the ideas of justification, warrant, rationality, and probability. Loosely speaking, justification is the reason that someone (properly) holds a belief. When a claim is in doubt, justification can be used to support the claim and reduce or remove the doubt. Justification can use empiricism (the evidence of the senses), authoritative testimony (the appeal to criteria and authority), or logical deduction.” Ref

What do you mean by god? I have to challenge your beliefs, because you won’t. To me, every religion was new at some point and had someone who made shit up, yes all of them, every religion. As an atheist, I am a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of god or gods. In my non-belief, I am also ignostic feeling that every theological position assumes too much about the concept of god(s). As an ignostic, I am a person who rational no idea of anything from reality whatever to label as “a concept of god” thus I can say I have no idea of anything that can connect to the term god and no reason to think anyone else can either. As an anti-theist, I am a person who is active in opposition to theism: both the concepts of god(s) as well as the religions that support them. This is because theistic concepts and theistic religions are harmful and that even if theistic beliefs were true, they would be undesirable. As an anti-religionist, I am a person who can look at religion on the whole and see it is detrimental to the progress of humanity thus am in opposition to all and every religion, not even just opposition to organized religion. In case you were wondering, I am anti-pseudoscience, anti-supernatural, and anti-superstition as well. Therefore, I am a proud anti-religionist, not just atheist or even anti-theist. Yes, I am an atheist, anti-theist, and an anti-religionist. I am against flawed superstitious magical beliefs like god(s) and/or religion. However, I am not against people. I have many strong opinions and beliefs as well as my challenge of others or I am against many types of beliefs especially if they involve supernatural or superstitious, or harm. However, I am not against people nor am I against their free right to believe as they wish. To me, everyone owns themselves and their beliefs are theirs as well, and will be held accountable for those beliefs. Thus, to me, not I or anyone has the right to force people on what to believe. I as others do have the right to voice our beliefs, just as I or others then have the right to challenge voiced beliefs. Long live mental freedom. Proudly, I am an atheist, anti-theist, and an anti-religionist.

“Damien, what’s your philosophical position? Are you a materialist who believes that everything is reducible to physical? Idealism, Neutral Monist, etc.?” – Questioner

My response, I am a metaphysical naturalist (basically everything is reducible to physical) because of the universal reliable truth of the application of the scientific methods reliable and only demonstration using methodological naturalism, no magic, not even simple supernatural found in any amount ever anywhere by anyone.

“Damien, regardless of fancy wording we can not prove something is true without evidence just the same as we can not prove something is not true without evidence. Do you not agree that is the real argument?” – Questioner

My response, No, I don’t agree, it is always so. If I say I have the Nile River in my pocket you can’t see in my pocket but if you are rational and assess just what is allowable in reality, you don’t have to even look I know as you such a claim is preposterous to the point it can defy reason thus anyone would rightly reject a claim that a very limited space of a pants pocket watch can only at most fit something about 10 inches long but the Nile River is 4,258 mi long and even if it could be moved, which it can’t, more issues, but all and all it is clear that you can with certainty say that the Nile River in my pocket does not exist. I will give you another. Or say I said I have a money in my front pocket and you look finding nothing where it would be if there thus you now have negative evidence of my pocket which is empty when reasonably searched and nothing, you rightly can confirm with certainty that the pocket is, in fact, empty and not filled with money as I had claimed. You are certain there is no money in my pocket exists. There are many more examples but I think you can see what I am saying. To me even your question, while a good one exposes how the approach to reason may be used differently depending on the thinker.

What do you mean by god? I am a Methodological Rationalist, I rarely am pushed to doubt as a default, instead, I see reason as my default and at times it may be responsible to doubt, but I get to that conclusion because of reasoning. A common saying in pseudologic is “You can’t prove a negative.” This is, simply not true. This is clearly not true because any statement can be rewritten into the negation of its negation. Any provable statement can be written as a negative. For example, “X is true” can be rewritten as “X is not false”, a negative statement! If “X is true” can be proven true, then you have also proven a negative statement “X is not false”. Moreover, even if it is widely believed that you can’t prove a negative. Going so far as to have people thinking that it is a law of logic—you can’t prove that Santa Claus, unicorns, the Loch Ness Monster, God, pink elephants, WMD in Iraq and Bigfoot don’t exist. This widespread belief is flatly, 100% wrong. In this little essay, I show precisely how one can prove a negative, to the same extent that one can prove anything at all. Evidence of absence is evidence of any kind that suggests something is missing or that it does not exist. Per the traditional aphorism, “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”, positive evidence of this kind is distinct from a lack of evidence or ignorance of that which should have been found already, had it existed. In this regard Irving Copi writes: “In some circumstances, it can be safely assumed that if a certain event had occurred, evidence of it could be discovered by qualified investigators. In such circumstances, it is perfectly reasonable to take the absence of proof of its occurrence as positive proof of its non-occurrence.” — Copi, Introduction to Logic (1953), p. 95

Here are some links about proving a negative: Link, Link, Link, Link, Link, Link We fight IDEAS, not people, so while I wish to destroy harmful or false ideas I wish to uplift and empower people by inspiring their will to reason and know REASON is often the enemy of ignorance.

My Strongest Explicit Atheism “positive” / “strong” / “hard” atheists similar to Antitheist Atheism.

My Atheism: “Axiological Atheism”

[Antireligionist] My blogs that address Religion: Archaeology, Anthropology, Philosophy and History

What is a gOD Challenge

“What is a god?”

Challenger, “I have had many experiences with GOD THE FATHER GOD THE SON(JESUS) and GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT. The bible is true…GOD says if YOU seek ME with ALL YOUR HEART YOU WILL find ME………. taking a class in school and thinking that GOD does not exist is of YOUR OWN FREE WILL but I know without a doubt GOD exists and have witnessed his power by seeing a crippled woman get up and walk just like JESUS did in the bible. don’t take my word for it YOU have to seek GOD.”

My response, what is a god?

Challenger, “GOD loves you more than anyone could ever love you. He sent his only begotton son JESUS CHRIST to die for you and me/ It is a free gift, reach out and take it. tonight ask GOD to reveal himself to you and he will but you have to take a step of faith, you are not a robot or a dog and not forced to do anything by GOD. I know there is deep hurt and pain inside you but GODs love is mightier than that. If you seek him you will find. have a great evening sir.”

My response, “GOD loves you more than anyone could ever love you.” —This does not tell me what a god is.

Challenger, “He sent his only begotton son JESUS CHRIST to die for you and me/ It is a free gift, reach out and take it.” — Again, this does not tell me what a god is. Tonight, ask GOD to reveal himself to you and he will but you have to take a step of faith, you are not a robot or a dog and not forced to do anything by GOD.” — And again, this does not tell me what a god is. “I know there is deep hurt and pain inside you but GODs love is mightier than that. If you seek him you will find. have a great evening sir.” – And still again this does not tell me what a god is.”

My response, “So, what is a gOD?”

Challenger, “Please use spellcheCK you misspelled God! God is a male it says in the Book of Genesis that God created Man In His Imag, therefore,e God is a man because he created man first not a woman. and you know he exists because he gave you a conscience when you do something wrong you know it that’s why as a child you’d look around and see if somebody’s watching and do the same thing today there is absolute in this world and you know there is nobody has to convince you you already know in your own conscience God has written his laws in your heart and in your mind for the visible things that are made or clearly seen being understood his eternal power and godhead so that you are without excuse.”

My response, I like using “gOD” often for all gods, simply to remind egotistical god believes that your myth of gods is not special, just another fake description of nothing, so no “G” for any of you. lol

Challenger, “The god that you made up in your mind is addressed lowercase like it says in the Bible lord’s many gods many one God one Lord Jesus Christ.”

My response, “the god that you made up in your mind is addressed lowercase like it says in the Bible lord’s many gods many one God one Lord Jesus Christ” —This does not tell me what a god is. So, what is a god?

Challenger, “Love you Damien and so does God.”

My response, “Again, please, What is a god?”

Challenger, “Praying for you Sir.”

My response, Why? Please don’t waste it on me, pray for all the starving children in the world that a god if real let’s die. And of course, don’t forget to tell me, what is a god?

Challenger “Damien AtHope the world would be a very boring place without the problems and the bad things that happen. I like to thank god not only for the good things.”

My response, what do you mean by god?

Challenger “Damien AtHope you don’t have hope lol”

My response, Interesting how you talk without knowledge, is that a pattern? it seems you prefer to make believe as I have Hope for a Brighter Humanity. Life is short but not as short as the times we smile or laugh and even shorter are the times our heart smiles or we are filled with bliss, love and joy. It is this realization that reminds me to not just fill my life with them but to likewise do what I can so others around me can experience them…

Again, what is a god?

“We could separate the entire universe into its individual parts and never find an atom of justice or love, these also have no evidence without going through someone’s interpretation of it first. Maybe God is just unknowable because we are just human.” – Commentor

My response, God is a conspiracy theory of reality. God is not an explanation, it’s an excuse offered without justification, an added abstraction of mental creation.

“What if the divine doesn’t physically interact with us? I don’t think God is required as an excuse or justification for things that happen in the universe.” – Commentor

My response, What is “the divine”? You can keep adding terms that are made up but it is not evidence of anything but human creativity.

“Isn’t God and the divine just expressions of the same thing? If we lived in a simulation would that creator be a God? I don’t think everything can be explained with empirical evidence because there is too much we can’t actually measure.” – Commentor

My response, “God” (supernatural conspiracy theory of reality speculations) “divine” (of, from, or like God or a god. So also more supernatural conspiracy theory of reality speculations). “If we lived in a simulation would that creator be a God?” If we lived in a “simulation” (no reason to think this) would that “creator” (What is a creator? Unjustified labels) God (an Unknowable unjustified added midstory something speculation, without evidence to start it)?

As I thought, YOU do not have an answer to what a “god” is?

What is a gOD Challenge

My Atheistic (socialist-anarchist) Humanism?

Reasons for or Types of Atheism

“Child’s Eyes”

I am will to power!

Reasons for or Types of Atheism

What do you mean by god Evidence?

The Atheist-Humanist-Leftist Revolutionaries Shows in the prehistory series:

Damien Marie AtHope (Said as “At” “Hope”)/(Autodidact Polymath but not good at math):

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