Evidence for and against God’s existence

This argument misuses the word ‘faith’, unintentionally but in a way that is a bit too common IMO on a forum populated by thoughtful people. To see why this claim is so far off, replace ‘God’ in those sentences with any or all of these suggested characters: Russell’s teapot, Nessie, Thor I mean Loki, Mórrígan, Bob*, Dumbledore, Holy Supreme Wind, or Titania.

It is simply not defensible to talk about “faith” in the context of disbelief in gods. Any gods.

*Bob is not well known and even more poorly described in the sacred literature, but is omnipotent, omniscient, unpredictable, capricious, and fond of implanting and erasing human memories. She turns people into newts, all the time, but no one has ever seen it happen.

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