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Replying to Zzyzx]
There are NO 'apologies' required for 'I don't believe god tales'.
That is not at all what I said. In fact, I said atheism is a denial of a worldview, and has no positive content to critique. I also asked atheists to provide their views on the questions I posed in order to get at precisely that (i.e. positive atheistic content) as well as their apologies, which is to say defenses of them. I never said what you say here.
So, to what I
actually said, do you have anything to say on that? Another question I have for atheists is why they like knocking theists down so much but seem to continuously avoid providing their own worldviews. i.e.,
independent of the question of God. Not just negative views but, for once, something truly positive...
It's much easier to tear down than to build up. So all atheists out there, please, build up. Say something
positive for once.
The first question for a Theist to ask of an opposition debater might be, 'What is your theistic position'?
I agree that's a good question. Atheists tend to setup strawman versions of theism IMO that, as a theist, I would personally never associate with.
Of course, this would require that the Theist be aware that not all opposition debaters are Atheists. Some may be Agnostics, or Ignostics, Non-Theists or Non-Christians who follow a different religion.
Okay. Not sure what this has to do with the OP. The question was about atheists. I think theists are well aware that there is a spectrum of views out there.
That said, most Theists / Apologists do NOT identify their theistic position beyond 'Christian' -- which is a largely meaningless umbrella term that includes 40,000 denominational variations and doctrines, not to mention millions of individual versions of Christianity.
Again, what positive efforts have we heard from atheists or agnostics or whatever else? All we get is negative attacks on theism. Never positive efforts to truly think systematically and provide a coherent, atheistic worldview. I've yet to see that once.
Hence my questions. (So much easier to tear down than to build...)