This age old question was put to one of our Comrades:
>
Dr. Miles, A question. How do you know for sure that God does or
> does
not exist? If one doesn't believe in God that is their
> business, but
if one does it doesn't mean they must worship either.
> They can just accept
this God they have faith in, in their hearts
> and that is all they have
to do.
The Dialectical Reasoner responds: :)
I
am glad you asked this question.
That God does not exist can actually
be deduced from what you stated above, namely, that we don't know for sure. Here
is why:
Point 1 - There is no possible way to disprove the existence
of God as defined by Christians, as according to them he is incomprehensible and
imperceivable.
Point 2 - It follows from point 1 that there is likewise
no possible way to prove the existence of God for the same reasons given. Therefore,
there can be no empirical evidence whatsoever about God, and the notion that he
exists comes to us only by the words and writings of other people.
Point
3 - If God can be said to exist on the basis that we can not know whether or not
he exists, then he can also be said not to exist by the merits of the same logic.
Thus, the evidence for the existence of God is equal to the evidence against the
existence of God.
Point 4 - Points 1 through 3 being established, we
can now say that all statements about God are necessarily self-negating by their
own nature, and are therefore to be stricken and considered null.
Point
5 - After eliminating all of the statements about God that fall into this category
(which is all of them), we are then in the possession of no statement regarding
the existence of any God, and therefore have nothing to believe or doubt.
Conclusion: God does not exist because there are no longer any claims to
his existence.
